Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Megaclass Tetrapoda > Superclass Reptilia > Class Aves > Subclass Passerae > Superorder Coraciimorphae > Order Coraciiformes > Suborder Meropi > Superfamily Meropoidea > Family Meropidae

Merops Linnaeus, 1758

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Merops apiaster Linnaeus, 1758
Merops persicus Pallas, 1773

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: bee-eater

Literature

original description	Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p.
basis of record	Fry, C. H.; Keith, S.; Urban, E. K. (1988). The Birds of Africa, Volume III. Academic Press, London.
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].