The Sangihe lilac kingfisher (''Cittura sanghirensis'') is a species of kingfisher in the genus ''

Cittura Lilac kingfishers are kingfishers in the genus ''Cittura'', found in the lowlands of the Indonesia island of Sulawesi and the neighbouring Sangihe and Talaud Islands. Taxonomy The genus ''Cittura'' was introduced by the German naturalist Jo ...

'',

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to the lowlands of the

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island of Sangihe. It was previously considered a subspecies of the

Sulawesi lilac kingfisher The Sulawesi lilac kingfisher (''Cittura cyanotis'') is a species of kingfisher in the genus ''Cittura'', found in the lowlands of the Indonesia island of Sulawesi and Lembeh. Taxonomy The specific epithet ''cyanotis'' is from classical Greek ' ...

(''C. cyanotis''), but was split as a distinct species by the

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and

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in 2014, and the

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and Clements followed suit in 2022.

References

Cittura Taxa named by Richard Bowdler Sharpe Birds described in 1868 {{Coraciiformes-stub