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Category:Megalaima - BirdForum Opus

Genus: Megalaima

Description

This genus formerly contained more than 25 species of Asian Barbets.

Taxonomy

Megalaima would be a genus in the family Megalaimidae.
Clements and Dickinson, and Gill and Donsker, now include all this species in the genus Psilopogon.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2015. IOC World Bird Names (version 5.3). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.

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