Shining-blue Kingfisher

SCI Name:  Alcedo quadribrachys
Protonym:  Alcedo quadribrachys Consp.Gen.Av. 1 p.158
Taxonomy:  Coraciiformes / Alcedinidae / Alcedo
Taxonomy Code:  shbkin1
Type Locality:  Guinea.
Author:  Bonaparte
Publish Year:  1850
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

ALCEDO
(Alcedinidae; Ϯ Common Kingfisher A. atthis ispida) L. alcedo, alcedinis  or halcedo, halcedinis  kingfisher.  The later spellings are from the false etymology of Gr. ἁλς hals  sea; "56. ALCEDO.  Rostrum trigonum, crassum, rectum, longum.  Lingua carnosa, brevissima, plana, acuta." (Linnaeus 1758); "Alcedo Linné, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, p. 115. Type, by subsequent designation, Alcedo ispida Linné. (Swainson, Zool. Illustr., 1, 1820-21 (1821), text to pl. 26.)" (Peters, 1945, V, p. 170).  Linnaeus's Alcedo comprised seven species (A. Ispida, A. erithaca, A. Alcyon, A. Todus, A. smyrnensis, A. rudis, A. Dea).  New data supports the possible creation of a new order (Alcediniformes), containing the kingfishers, motmots and todies, separate from the current Coraciiformes.
Var. Halcedo, Alaudo, Aleedo, Alucido. 
Synon. Alcedoides, Alcyone, Caeruleornis, Capya, Cyanispida, Euryzonia, Ispida, Kerytus, Megalcedo, Pseudalcedo.

alcedo
L. alcedo, alcedinis or halcedo, halcedinis  kingfisher (see Alcedo).

quadribrachys
L. quadri-  four-  < quattuor  four; brachium  arm (i.e. toes).

SUBSPECIES

Shining-blue Kingfisher (quadribrachys)
SCI Name: Alcedo quadribrachys quadribrachys
quadribrachys
L. quadri-  four-  < quattuor  four; brachium  arm (i.e. toes).

Shining-blue Kingfisher (guentheri)
SCI Name: Alcedo quadribrachys guentheri
guentheri
● Dr Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1830-1914) Anglo-German ichthyologist, Keeper of the Department of Zoology, BM 1875-1895 (subsp. Alcedo quadribrachys, syn. Myzomela erythromelas).
● Dr Günther T. Niethammer (1908-1974) German zoologist (subsp. Linaria cannabina).