Manus Dwarf-Kingfisher

Manus Dwarf-Kingfisher / Ceyx dispar

Manus Dwarf-Kingfisher

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

SCI Name:  Ceyx dispar
Protonym:  Ceyx dispar Bull.Br.Orn.Club 33 p.106
Taxonomy:  Coraciiformes / Alcedinidae /
Taxonomy Code:  vardwk7
Type Locality:  Manus, Admiralty Islands.
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Publish Year:  1914
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.

dispar
L. dispar, disparis  different, dissimilar, unlike.