São Tomé kingfisher
The São Tomé kingfisher (Corythornis cristatus thomensis) is a bird in the family Alcedinidae. It is endemic to São Tomé, an island off the west coast of Africa in the Gulf of Guinea and was first described by the Italian ornithologist Tommaso Salvadori in 1902 under the binomial name Corythornis thomensis.[2][3] A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2008 showed that the São Tomé kingfisher is a subspecies of the malachite kingfisher.[4]
| Corythornis cristatus thomensis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Coraciiformes |
| Family: | Alcedinidae |
| Subfamily: | Alcedininae |
| Genus: | Corythornis |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | C. c. thomensis |
| Trinomial name | |
| Corythornis cristatus thomensis (Salvadori, 1902) | |
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References
- BirdLife International (2015). "Corythornis thomensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015. Retrieved 30 October 2015.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 176.
- Salvadori, Tommaso (1902). "On a new kingfisher of the genus Corythornis". Ibis. 8th series. 2: 568. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1902.tb03611.x.
- Melo, Martim; Fuchs, Jérôme (2008). "Phylogenetic relationships of the Gulf of Guinea Alcedo kingfishers". Ibis. 150 (3): 633–639. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.2008.00826.x.
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