Species profile
Biak Paradise-kingfisher
Tanysiptera riedelii
Quick answer
Biak I. (off w New Guinea)
- Scientific name
- Tanysiptera riedelii
- Family
- Alcedinidae
- Order
- Coraciiformes
- Genus
- Tanysiptera
- Conservation status
- Near Threatened
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Related species in Alcedinidae
- African Dwarf-kingfisher (Ispidina lecontei)
- African Pygmy-kingfisher (Ispidina picta)
- Alcedo albogularis (Alcedo albogularis)
- Alcedo atricapilla (Alcedo atricapilla)
- Alcedo bicolor (Alcedo bicolor)
- Alcedo brasiliensis (Alcedo brasiliensis)
- Alcedo caerulea (Alcedo caerulea)
- Alcedo caeruleocephala (Alcedo caeruleocephala)