African Pygmy-Kingfisher

SCI Name:  Ispidina picta
Protonym:  Todus pictus TablePlanchesEnlum. p.49
Taxonomy:  Coraciiformes / Alcedinidae / Ispidina
Taxonomy Code:  afpkin1
Type Locality:  Juida = St. Louis, Senegal.
Author:  Boddaert
Publish Year:  1783
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

ISPIDINA
(Alcedinidae; Ϯ African Pygmy Kingfisher I. picta) Dim. < genus Ispida Brisson 1760, kingfisher; "1) Ispidina.  4 Zehen.  Schnabel kurz, 1/3 länger als der Kopf, dachförmig, etwas flachgedrückt, ohne Rinne längs der Schnabelfirste. Scheitelfedern kurz, knapp anliegend.  ...  I. Subgenus Ispidina Kaup.  1) Alcedo picta, Bodd.  ...  a) Alcedo nitida, Kaup." (Kaup 1848); "Ispidina Kaup, Verh. naturhist. Ver. Grossherz. Hessen, 2, 1848, p. 71, 72. Type, by monotypy, Todus pictus Boddaert." (Peters 1945, V, 177).
Var. Ipsidina.
Synon. Myioceyx.

picta
L. pictus  painted  < pingere  to paint.
● ex “Painted Duck” of Cook 1777, and “Painted Goose” of Latham 1785 (Chloephaga).
● ex "Todier de Juida" of d'Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 783, fig. 1, and "Todier bleu à ventre orangé" of de Buffon 1770-1785 (Ispidina).
● ex “Todier bleu à ventre orangé” of de Buffon 1770-1785, and “Blue Tody” of Latham 1782 (syn. Ispidina picta).
● ex “Anaca” of Marcgrave 1648, and “Perruche à gorge tachetée de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 144 (Pyrrhura).

SUBSPECIES

African Pygmy-Kingfisher (picta)
SCI Name: Ispidina picta picta
picta
L. pictus  painted  < pingere  to paint.
● ex “Painted Duck” of Cook 1777, and “Painted Goose” of Latham 1785 (Chloephaga).
● ex "Todier de Juida" of d'Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 783, fig. 1, and "Todier bleu à ventre orangé" of de Buffon 1770-1785 (Ispidina).
● ex “Todier bleu à ventre orangé” of de Buffon 1770-1785, and “Blue Tody” of Latham 1782 (syn. Ispidina picta).
● ex “Anaca” of Marcgrave 1648, and “Perruche à gorge tachetée de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 144 (Pyrrhura).

African Pygmy-Kingfisher (ferrugina)
SCI Name: Ispidina picta ferrugina
ferrugina / ferruginatus
L. ferruginus  rusty-coloured  < ferrugo, ferruginis  iron rust  < ferrum  iron.

African Pygmy-Kingfisher (natalensis)
SCI Name: Ispidina picta natalensis
natalensis
Natal or Port Natal / Durban, South Africa (named Terra Natalis Land of the Holy Birth, by Vasco da Gama when his expedition sailed along the coast in December 1497).