Mountain Kingfisher

SCI Name:  Syma megarhyncha
Protonym:  Syma megarhyncha Ann.Mus.Civ.Stor.Nat.Genova 36 p.70
Taxonomy:  Coraciiformes / Alcedinidae / Syma
Taxonomy Code:  moukin1
Type Locality:  Moroka, New Guinea.
Author:  Salvadori
Publish Year:  1896
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

SYMA
(Alcedinidae; Ϯ Yellow-billed Kingfisher S. torotoro) Gr. myth. Syma, a sea nymph; "Ce genre, voisin de l'Alcedo, doit prendre place après celui nommé Dacelo par Leach.  Genre SYMÉ (1) (Syma) Lesson.  ... Cet oiseau habite le bord de la mer, le long des palétuviers.  ... (1) Nom mythologique d'une nymphe de la mer" (Lesson 1827).
Var. Lyma.

syma
Genus Syma Lesson, 1827, kingfisher (used as a replacement name for torotoro) (syn. Syma torotoro).

megarhyncha / megarhynchos / megarhynchus
Gr. μεγα mega  much  < μεγας megas, μεγαλη megalē  great, long; ῥυγχος rhunkhos  bill.

SUBSPECIES

Mountain Kingfisher (wellsi)
SCI Name: Syma megarhyncha wellsi
wellsi
● John Grant Wells (fl. 1902) collector, resident on Grenada, West Indies 1886-1902 (syn. Amazilia tobaci, syn. Coereba flaveola aterrima, Leptotila).
● Thomas Wells (1868-1939) British ornithologist at BMNH 1883-1929 (syn. Campethera tullbergi, syn. Cercococcyx mechowi, syn. Cisticola lateralis antinorii, subsp. Climacteris melanurus, syn. Eremophila alpestris longirostris, syn. Francolinus pintadeanus, subsp. Liocichla ripponi, subsp. Lophophanes dichrous, subsp. Motacilla capensis, subsp. Picus chlorolophus, subsp. Syma megarhyncha, syn. Symposiachrus trivirgatus nigrimentum).

Mountain Kingfisher (sellamontis)
SCI Name: Syma megarhyncha sellamontis
sellamontis
L. sella  saddle, seat (old form sedla)  < sedere  to sit; mons, montis mountain.
● Sattelberg, Huon Peninsula, New Guinea < German Sattel  saddle; Berg  mountain (subsp. Syma megarhyncha).

Mountain Kingfisher (megarhyncha)
SCI Name: Syma megarhyncha megarhyncha
megarhyncha / megarhynchos / megarhynchus
Gr. μεγα mega  much  < μεγας megas, μεγαλη megalē  great, long; ῥυγχος rhunkhos  bill.