Buru Dwarf-Kingfisher

Buru Dwarf-Kingfisher / Ceyx cajeli

Buru Dwarf-Kingfisher

Here the details of the Buru Dwarf-Kingfisher named bird below:

SCI Name:  Ceyx cajeli
Protonym:  Ceyx cajeli Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 p.25 pl.5
Taxonomy:  Coraciiformes / Alcedinidae /
Taxonomy Code:  vardwk5
Type Locality:  Buru.
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Publish Year:  1863
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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.

cajeli
Cajeli, Bouru (= Buru), Moluccas.