The trip hammer with white belly ( Tachymarptis Melba ) is also known under the names of alpine trip hammer or of royal trip hammer .

In 1758, Carl von Linné baptized it Apus Melba but in 1922, Austin Roberts created the kind Tachymarptis of which it is the species-type.

List subspecies

• Tachymarptis Melba africanus (Temminck, 1815)
• Tachymarptis Melba archeri (Hartert, 1928)
• Tachymarptis Melba bakeri (Hartert, 1928)
• Tachymarptis Melba marjoriae (Bradfield, 1935)
• Tachymarptis Melba maximus (Ogilvie-Grant, 1907)
• Tachymarptis Melba Melba (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Tachymarptis Melba nubifugus (Koelz, 1954)
• Tachymarptis Melba tuneti (Tschusi, 1904)
• Tachymarptis Melba willsi (Hartert, 1896)
• Tachymarptis aequatorialis (JW Von Muller, 1851)

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