White-bellied kingfisher

White-bellied kingfisher
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Coraciiformes
Family:	Alcedinidae
Subfamily:	Alcedininae
Genus:	Corythornis
Species:	C. leucogaster
Binomial name
	Corythornis leucogaster; (Fraser, 1843)
Synonyms
	Alcedo leucogaster

The white-bellied kingfisher (Corythornis leucogaster) is a species of bird in the family Alcedinidae that occurs in parts of equatorial west Africa. The first formal description of the species was by the British zoologist Louis Fraser in 1843 under the binomial name Halcyon leucogaster.^[2]^[3]

References

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^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 176.
^ Fraser, Louis (1843). "Halcyon leucogaster". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 11 (120): 4.

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[1] Template:IUCN

[2] Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 176.

[3] Fraser, Louis (1843). "Halcyon leucogaster". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 11 (120): 4.

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