Seram Dwarf-Kingfisher

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

SCI Name:  Ceyx lepidus
Protonym:  Ceyx lepida Pl.Col. livr.100 pl.595 fig.1
Taxonomy:  Coraciiformes / Alcedinidae / Ceyx
Taxonomy Code:  vardwk4
Type Locality:  Amboina.
Author:  Temminck
Publish Year:  1836
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.

lepidus
L. lepidus  charming, elegant  < lepos, leporis  charm.