Rufous-backed Dwarf-Kingfisher

SCI Name:  Ceyx rufidorsa
Protonym:  Ceyx rufidorsa Proc.Zool.Soc.London (1846) Pt14 no.165 p.99
Taxonomy:  Coraciiformes / Alcedinidae / Ceyx
Taxonomy Code:  rubkin1
Type Locality:  Malacca.
Author:  Strickland
Publish Year:  1847
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

CEYX
(Alcedinidae; Ϯ Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher C. erithaca) L. ceyx, ceycis  seabird variously identified  < Gr. κηυξ kēux, κηυκος kēukos  seabird mentioned by Dionysius and Lucian, and considered identical to the halcyon. In Gr. myth. Ceyx, blasphemous husband to Alcyone, was drowned at sea and metamorphosed into a kingfisher along with his desolated wife when she found his body washed up on the shore; "62. CÉYX.  Ceyx.  { Le bec très-long; la langue courte; le tarse très-court; chaque pied ne présentant que trois doigts." (de Lacépède 1799); "Ceyx Lacépède, Tabl. Ois., 1799, p. 10. Type, by monotypy, Alcedo tridactyla Pallas = Alcedo erithaca Linné (species added, Daudin, in Buffon, Hist. Nat. (éd Didot), 14, 1802, p. 287.)" (Peters, 1945, V, p. 178).
Var. Ceix, Ceux, Ceycis.
Synon. Alcyon, Argyroceyx, Ceycalcyon, Ceycopsis, Cyanoceyx, Micralcyone, Therosa.

rufidorsa
L. rufus  rufous; dorsus  back.

SUBSPECIES

Rufous-backed Dwarf-Kingfisher (rufidorsa)
SCI Name: Ceyx rufidorsa rufidorsa
rufidorsa
L. rufus  rufous; dorsus  back.

Rufous-backed Dwarf-Kingfisher (motleyi)
SCI Name: Ceyx rufidorsa motleyi
motleyi
James Motley (1822-1859) English mining engineer, surveyor, botanist, naturalist in Borneo, Singapore and Sumatra 1849-1859 (subsp. Ceyx erithaca).

Rufous-backed Dwarf-Kingfisher (captus)
SCI Name: Ceyx rufidorsa captus
captus
L. captus or captivus prisoner, captive  < capere  to seize.

Rufous-backed Dwarf-Kingfisher (jungei)
SCI Name: Ceyx rufidorsa jungei
jungei
Dr George Christofell Alexander Junge (1905-1962) Dutch ornithologist at RijksMuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden 1934-1962, editor of ‘Ardea’ 1938-1962 (syn. Caprimulgus macrurus schlegelii, syn. Ceyx erithaca, subsp. Chalcites minutillus, syn. Rhyticeros plicatus).