Bismarck Kingfisher / Ceyx websteri
WBN 
Bismarck Kingfisher
SCI Name:
Protonym: Alcyone websteri ThroughNewGuinea[Webster] p.371
Taxonomy: Coraciiformes / Alcedinidae / Ceyx
Taxonomy Code: biskin1
Type Locality: New Hanover.
Author: Hartert, E
Publish Year: 1898
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
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.
websteri
● Capt. Herbert Cayley Webster (d. 1917) English explorer in New Guinea and the Bismarcks (subsp. Cacomantis variolosus, Ceyx).
● Frank Blake Webster (1850-1922) US taxidermist (subsp. Sula sula).
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)
