Alcedo hercules

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Overview

Threatened

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Biome: Terrestrial ; Freshwater

Ecology:
List of Habitats :1.6Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 12-Jun-2005

Similar Species

Members of the genus Alcedo

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 104 species and subspecies in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

A. amazona · A. argentata (Silvery Kingfisher) · A. argentata argentata (Silvery Kingfisher) · A. argentata flumenicola · A. atthis (Principe Kingfisher) · A. atthis atthis (Common Common Kingfisher) · A. atthis bengalensis (Indian Small Blue Kingfisher) · A. atthis floresiana · A. atthis formosana · A. atthis hispidoides (Bismarck's Kingfisher) · A. atthis ispida (European Kingfisher) · A. atthis japonica · A. atthis pallasii (Central Asian Kingfisher) · A. atthis salomonensis · A. atthis taprobana · A. azurea (Azure Kingfisher) · A. azurea affinis · A. azurea azurea · A. azurea diemenensis · A. azurea lessonii · A. azurea ochrogaster · A. azurea ruficollaris · A. azureus (Azure Kingfisher) · A. bengalensis · A. beryllina · A. biru · A. coerulenscens · A. coerulescens (Small Blue Kingfisher) · A. cristata (Malachite Kingfisher) · A. cristata cristata · A. cristata galerita · A. cristata ssp · A. cristata stuartkeithi · A. cristata thomensis · A. cristata vintsioides · A. cyanocephala · A. cyanoleuca · A. cyanopecta cyanopecta (Indigo-Banded Kingfisher) · A. cyanopectus (Indigo-Banded Kingfisher) · A. cyanopectus cyanopectus (Indigo-Banded Kingfisher) · A. cyanopectus nigrirostris · A. cyanostigma · A. euryzona (Blue-Banded Kingfisher) · A. euryzona euryzona (Blue-Banded Kingfisher) · A. euryzona peninsulae · A. floresiana · A. guentheri · A. hercules (Blyth's Kingfisher) · A. ispida · A. ispida var. taprobana Kleinschmidt, 1894 · A. leucocephala · A. leucogaster (White-Bellied Kingfisher) · A. leucogaster batesi · A. leucogaster bowdleri · A. leucogaster leopoldi · A. leucogaster leucogaster · A. leucogaster nais · A. leucogaster neumanni · A. maxima · A. melanoptera · A. meninting (Blue-Eared Kingfisher) · A. meninting coltarti · A. meninting laubmanni · A. meninting meninting (Blue-Eared Kingfisher) · A. meninting phillipsi · A. meninting rufigaster · A. meninting rufigastra · A. meninting scintillans · A. meninting verreauxi · A. meninting verreauxii · A. nais · A. natalensis · A. omnicolor · A. picta · A. pusilla (Mangrove Kingfisher) · A. pusilla aolae · A. pusilla bougainvillei · A. pusilla halli · A. pusilla halmaherae · A. pusilla laetior · A. pusilla masauji · A. pusilla pusilla · A. pusilla ramsayi · A. pusilla richardsi · A. quadribrachys (Shining Blue Kingfisher) · A. quadribrachys guentheri (Gabon Shining Blue Kingfisher) · A. quadribrachys quadribrachys (Shining Blue Kingfisher) · A. rudis · A. rufigastra · A. rufirostris · A. semitorquata (Half-Collared Kingfisher) · A. semitorquata heuglini · A. semitorquata semitorquata (Half-Collared Kingfisher) · A. semitorquata tephria (Half-Collared Kingfisher) · A. senegalensis · A. sindiana · A. stellata · A. striolata · A. thomensis · A. variegata

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Further Reading

• Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
• BirdLife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, U.K.
• BirdLife International. 2004 Threatened Birds of the World 2004. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
• Birds of the Kelley-Roosevelts expedition to French Indo-China, by Outram Bangs and Josselyn Van Tyne. Chicago, 1931. ENG url p. 55.
• Collar, N.J. and Andrew, P. 1988. Birds to Watch. The ICBP World Checklist of Threatened Birds. ICBP Technical Publication No. 8. Page Bros. (Norwich) Ltd, Norfolk, England.
• Collar, N.J., Crosby, M.J. and Stattersfield, A.J. 1994. Birds to Watch 2. The World List of Threatened Birds BirdLife International. Page Bros (Norwich) Ltd, U.K.
• IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
• Ornithologische Monatsberichte. Berlin. GER url p. 149.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 3, 2006.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 09, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 09, 2008:

• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3853687
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-554548
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 554548
• IUCN ID: 800
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 532

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