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Shining-blue kingfisher
Species of bird / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The shining-blue kingfisher (Alcedo quadribrachys) is a species of bird in the family Alcedinidae. It is found in Equatorial Africa.
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Shining-blue kingfisher | |
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Alcedo quadribrachys quadribrachys Ghana | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Coraciiformes |
Family: | Alcedinidae |
Subfamily: | Alcedininae |
Genus: | Alcedo |
Species: | A. quadribrachys |
Binomial name | |
Alcedo quadribrachys Bonaparte, 1850 | |
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The shining-blue kingfisher was described of by the French ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1850 and given its current binomial name Alcedo quadribrachys.[2][3] The name Alcedo is the Latin word for a "kingfisher". The specific epithet quadribrachys is from the Latin quadri- for "four" and brachium meaning "arms" or in this case "toes".[4] The shining-blue kingfisher is one of seven species in the genus Alcedo and is most closely related to the half-collared kingfisher (Alcedo semitorquata).[5][6]
There are two subspecies:[5]
- A. q. quadribrachys Bonaparte, 1850 – Senegal and Gambia to west central Nigeria
- A. q. guentheri Sharpe, 1892 – southern Nigeria to Kenya, northwest Zambia and north Angola
- A. q. quadribrachys, Ghana
- A. q. guentheri, Uganda
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