''Apaloderma'' is a genus of birds in the family

Trogonidae The trogons and quetzals are birds in the order Trogoniformes which contains only one family, the Trogonidae. The family Trogonidae contains 49 species in seven genera. The fossil record of the trogons dates back 49 million years to the Early ...

. The name is a compound word composed of two

Greek Greek may refer to: Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...

words: ''hapalos'', meaning "delicate"and ''derma'', meaning "skin". Established by

William Swainson William Swainson Fellow of the Linnean Society, FLS, Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (8 October 1789 – 6 December 1855), was an English ornithologist, Malacology, malacologist, Conchology, conchologist, entomologist and artist. Life Swains ...

in 1833, the genus contains the following species:

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Bird genera Birds of Sub-Saharan Africa Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxa named by William Swainson {{Trogoniformes-stub