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''Galbalcyrhynchus'' is a genus of
bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweig ...
s in the
Galbulidae The jacamars are a family, Galbulidae, of near passerine birds from tropical South and Central America, extending up to Mexico. The family contains five genera and 18 species. The family is closely related to the puffbirds, another Neotropical ...
family. Established by
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in 1845, it contains the following species:


Species

The name ''Galbalcyrhynchus'' is a combination of the genus name ''Galbula'' (used for many of the
jacamar The jacamars are a family, Galbulidae, of near passerine birds from tropical South and Central America, extending up to Mexico. The family contains five genera and 18 species. The family is closely related to the puffbirds, another Neotropical f ...
s) and the genus name ''Alcyone'' (used for some of the kingfishers) with the
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word ''rhunkhos'', meaning "
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".


References

Bird genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Piciformes-stub