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Hook-billed Kingfisher
Melidora macrorrhina (Lesson, RP, 1827)
Alcedinidae — Kingfishers
Hook-billed Kingfisher, Melidora macrorrhina, is a kingfisher of lowland forest in New Guinea, with its breeding range in Australasia centred on that island. It is the only species in the genus Melidora. René Lesson first described it in 1827, and the name now used for the genus was introduced by him in 1830. Three subspecies are recognised, with forms recorded from Waigeo Island, much of New Guinea, Misool, Batanta, north New Guinea and Yapen Island.
- Order
- Coraciiformes
- Family
- Alcedinidae — Kingfishers
- Breeding range
- Australasia: New Guinea
