Hook-billed Kingfisher / Melidora macrorrhina
Hook-billed Kingfisher
SCI Name:
Protonym: Dacelo macrorrhinus Bull.Univ.Sci.Ind. 12 sect.2(Sci.Nat.Geol.) p.131
Taxonomy: Coraciiformes / Alcedinidae / Melidora
Taxonomy Code: hobkin1
Type Locality: Dorey Harbor, New Guinea.
Author: Lesson
Publish Year: 1827
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MELIDORA
(Alcedinidae; Ϯ Hook-billed Kingfisher M. macrorrhina) Perhaps from Gr. μηλις mēlis yellow; δορυ doru spear, in allusion to the heavy yellow bill of the Hook-billed Kingfisher; "VII.e Sous-genre. MÉLIDORE; Melidora. Bec robuste, énorme, très-large, à mandibule supérieure terminée en pointe ou crochet hameçonné; l'inférieure légèrement renflée; une double arête en ressant sur la voûte de la mandibule supérieure; narines en fente longitudinale peu apparente; le tour des yeux nu; des poils ou cils rigides couvrant la naissance du bec; ailes amples, queue médiocre. Observ. La seule espèce connue habite la Nouvelle-Guinée. MÉLIDORE d'EUPHROSINE; Melidora Euphrosiæ: Dacelo macrorhinchus, Less., Zool. de la Coq., pl. 31bis, fig. 2." (Lesson 1830); "Melidora Lesson, Traité d'Orn., livr. 4, 1830, p. 249. Type, by monotypy, Melidora euphrosiae Lesson = Dacelo macrorrhinus Lesson." (Peters 1945, V, 192).
macrorrhina / macrorrhinus
Gr. μακρος makros long; ῥις rhis, ῥινος rhinos nose.
SUBSPECIES
Hook-billed Kingfisher (waigiuensis)
SCI Name: Melidora macrorrhina waigiuensis
waigeuense / waigeuensis / waigeunsis / waigiouensis / waigiuensis / waigoui
Waigiu I., Moluccas, Dutch New Guinea / Waigeu or Waigeo, Raja Ampat group, West Papua, Indonesia.
Hook-billed Kingfisher (macrorrhina)
SCI Name: Melidora macrorrhina macrorrhina
macrorrhina / macrorrhinus
Gr. μακρος makros long; ῥις rhis, ῥινος rhinos nose.
Hook-billed Kingfisher (jobiensis)
SCI Name: Melidora macrorrhina jobiensis
jobiensis
Jobi I. (= Japen), Geelvink Bay, New Guinea.
● Erroneous TL. Jobi I. (= mainland of New Guinea, east of Geelvink Bay) (Ailuroedus).
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)