Clytoceyx Rex Bird

English Name:  Shovel-billed Kookaburra
Latin Name:  Clytoceyx rex
Protonym:  Clytoceyx rex Ann.Mag.Nat.Hist.(5), 6 p.231
Taxonomy:  Coraciiformes / Alcedinidae / Clytoceyx
Taxonomy Code:  shbkoo1
Type Locality:  East Cape, New Guinea.
Author:  Sharpe
Publish Year:  1880
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CLYTOCEYX
(Alcedinidae; Ϯ Shovel-billed Kingfisher C. rex) Gr. κλυτος klutos  splendid, noble  < κλεω kleō  to celebrate; genus Ceyx de Lacépède, 1799, kingfisher; "CLYTOCEYX, gen. nov.   Genus novum Daceloninarum, rostro quam cauda breviore, culmine lævi rotundato, rectricibus 12, commissura integra, naribus linearibus, tarso longiore quam halluce cum ungue mensurato, rostro magno obtuso, altitudine ad nares mensurata ejus latitudinem æquante insignissimum.   Typus est  Clytoceyx rex, sp. n." (Sharpe 1880); "Clytoceyx Sharpe, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1880, p. 231.  Type (by [original designation and] monotypy): Clytoceyx rex Sharpe." (Mathews, 1927, Syst. Av. Austral., I, p. 372).

rex
L. rex, regis  king  < regere  to rule (e.g. larger, crowned, with more colourful or regal plumage).
● ex “Roi des Oiseaux de Paradis” of Sonnerat 1776 (syn. Cicinnurus regius).
● ex “Roi des fourmiliers de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 702, and “King Thrush” of Latham 1783 (syn. Grallaria varia).
● ex “Perroquet Lori Radhia” of Levaillant 1801-1805 (syn. Lorius domicella).
● King I., Bass Strait, Australia (syn. Pardalotus quadragintus, subsp. Phylidonyris pyrrhoptera).
● Carlos Fernando Francisco de Assis de Bragança Sabóia Bourbon y Sajonia-Coburgo-Gotha Duque de Bragança and King of Portugal (1863-1908; reigned 1889-1908 assassinated) (subsp. Stactolaema anchietae).

Rex
(syn. Regulus Ϯ Goldcrest R. regulus) L. rex, regis  king  < regere  to rule. This is probably only a substantive name (see Regaliolus).