Actenoides Bougainvillei Bird
Actenoides Bougainvillei Bird
English Name:
Latin Name:
Protonym: Halcyon bougainvillei Bull.Br.Orn.Club 15 p.5
Taxonomy: Coraciiformes / Alcedinidae / Actenoides
Taxonomy Code: moukin2
Type Locality: Bougainville Island.
Author: Rothschild
Publish Year: 1904
IUCN Status:
DEFINITIONS
ACTENOIDES
(Alcedinidae; † Green-backed Kingfisher A. monachus) Gr. ακτις aktis, ακτινος aktinos beam, brightness, splendour (cf. specific name Dacelo acteon Lesson, 1830 (= subsp. Halcyon leucocephala); cf. “Actenoïde variée” of Hombron & Jacquinot MS 1845); -οιδης -oidēs resembling; "Actenoides, Hombr. et Jacq. (Halcyon p. Gr.) HALCYON ACTENOIDES, Gr. (Actenoides hombroni, Bp.) Voy. Pole Sud, Ois. t. 23. ex Oceania" (Bonaparte 1850); "ACTENOIDES Bonaparte, 1850 M — Actenoides hombroni Bonaparte, 1850; type by monotypy" (Dickinson and Remsen (eds.), H. & M. Complete Checklist, 4th ed., 2013, 1 (Non-passerines), p. 342).
Var. Aetenoides, Actenoide, Actinoides.
Synon. Astacophilus, Caridagrus, Dacelalcyon.
bougainvillei
Bougainville I., Solomon Is.
SUBSPECIES
Moustached Kingfisher (Bougainville)
Latin Name: Actenoides bougainvillei bougainvillei
bougainvillei
Bougainville I., Solomon Is.
Moustached Kingfisher (Guadalcanal)
Latin Name: Actenoides bougainvillei excelsus
excelsus
L. excelsus distinguished, lofty, eminent < ex from; celsus lofty, eminent < obsolescent cellere to elevate.
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)