see list Todiramphus is a genus of kingfishers in the subfamily Halcyoninae that are endemic to the Philippines, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and many islands in the South Pacific.

[4] In 1945 James Peters in his Check-list of Birds of the World placed these species in an enlarged genus Halcyon.

[5] Hilary Fry did the same in his 1992 monograph on kingfishers, but in 2001 Peter Woodall in the Handbook of the Birds of the World chose to place these Pacific flat-billed species in the resurrected genus Todiramphus.

[8][9] The range of the genus extends from the Philippines in the west to French Polynesia in the east, with the greatest diversity in Australasia.

Many species are commonly found well away from water and feed largely on terrestrial animals such as insects and lizards.