Green-and-rufous Kingfisher / Chloroceryle inda
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Green-and-rufous Kingfisher
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Protonym: Alcedo inda Syst.Nat.ed.12 ed.12 p.179
Taxonomy: Coraciiformes / Alcedinidae / Chloroceryle
Taxonomy Code: garkin1
Type Locality: 'India occidental!, '' error = Guiana ex Edwards.
Author: Linnaeus
Publish Year: 1766
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
CHLOROCERYLE
(Alcedinidae; Ϯ American Pygmy Kingfisher C. aenea) Gr. χλωρος khlōros green; genus Ceryle Boie, 1828, kingfisher (see Megaceryle); "Chloroceryle Kaup (subgenus), Verh. naturhist. Ver. Grossherz. Hessen, Heft 2, 1848, p. 68. Type, by subsequent designation, Alcedo superciliosa Linné = Alcedo aenea Pallas. (Sharpe, Monogr. Alced., 1871, p. viii.)1 ... 1 G. R. Gray's 1855 designation is invalid since he credits the genus to Reichenbach as of 1851." (Peters, 1945, V, p. 168). Due to competition from endemic families, the kingfishers Alcedinidae have undergone sparse speciation in the Americas, and the green and rufous American Pygmy Kingfisher is the smallest of only two genera and six species found there.
Synon. Amazonis.
inda
L. Indus Indian < India India.
● Erroneous TL. India occidentali (= West Indies = Guiana); ex “Spotted King’s-fisher” of Edwards 1743 (Chloroceryle).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
