Guadalcanal Dwarf-Kingfisher

Guadalcanal Dwarf-Kingfisher / Ceyx nigromaxilla

Guadalcanal Dwarf-Kingfisher

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

SCI Name:  Ceyx nigromaxilla
Protonym:  Ceyx lepida nigromaxilla Novit.Zool. 12 p.256
Taxonomy:  Coraciiformes / Alcedinidae /
Taxonomy Code:  vardwk14
Type Locality:  Guadalcanal.
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Publish Year:  1905
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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.

nigromaxilla
L. niger  black; maxilla  jaw.