Overview
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Interesting Facts
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Spotted Kingfisher, Spotted Wood Kingfisher
Common Names in French:
Martin-chasseur tacheté
Common Names in German:
Tropfenliest
Common Names in Japanese:
シロボシショウビン
Description
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Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 766 meters (0 to 2,513 feet).[1]
Ecology:
List of Habitats
:
- 1 Forest
- 1.6 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland
- 1.9 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane
- 14 Artificial/Terrestrial
- 14.4 Artificial/Terrestrial - Rural Gardens [more info]
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Class:
Aves
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Subclass:
Avialae
()
- Gauthier, 1986
- Infraclass:
Aves
()
- (C. Linnaeus, 1758)
- Cohort:
Neognathae
()
- Pycraft, 1900
- Superorder:
Passerimorphae
()
- Sibley et al., 1988
- Order:
Coraciiformes
()
- Forbes, 1884
- Suborder:
Halcyones
()
- Forbes, 1884
- Infraorder:
Alcedinides
()
-
- Parvorder:
Alcedinida
()
- Superfamily:
Alcedinoidea
()
- Stejneger, 1885
- Family:
Alcedinidae
()
- Bonaparte, 1831
- Subfamily:
Halcyoninae
()
- Genus:
Actenoides
()
- Bonaparte, 1850
- Specific name:
lindsayi
- (Vigors) 1831
- Scientific name: - Actenoides lindsayi (Vigors, 1831) (Vigors) 1831
- Specific name:
lindsayi
- (Vigors) 1831
- Genus:
Actenoides
(
- Subfamily:
Halcyoninae
(
- Family:
Alcedinidae
(
- Superfamily:
Alcedinoidea
(
- Parvorder:
Alcedinida
(
- Infraorder:
Alcedinides
(
- Suborder:
Halcyones
(
- Order:
Coraciiformes
(
- Superorder:
Passerimorphae
(
- Cohort:
Neognathae
(
- Infraclass:
Aves
(
- Subclass:
Avialae
(
- Class:
Aves
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Actenoides lindsayi (Vigors, 1831)
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 06-Dec-2005
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Actenoides
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 11 species and subspecies in this genus:
A. bougainvillei (Moustached Kingfisher) · A. bougainvillei bougainvillei (Moustached Kingfisher) · (Chestnut-Collared Kingfisher) · A. concretus concretus (Chestnut-Collared Kingfisher) · A. hombroni (Blue-Capped Kingfisher) · A. lindsayi (Spotted Wood Kingfisher) · A. lindsayi lindsayi (Spotted Wood Kingfisher) · A. monachus (Blue-Headed Wood Kingfisher) · A. monachus monachus (Blue-Headed Wood Kingfisher) · A. princeps (Bar-Headed Wood Kingfisher) · A. princeps princeps (Bar-Headed Wood Kingfisher)
More Info
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Further Reading
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- Birds of Asia / by John Gould. I 1850-83 London: Printed by Taylor and Francis, pub. by the author, 1850-1883. url p. .
- Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 286.
- Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 308, p. 5, p. 639.
- Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. [London]: Published for the Zoological Society of London by Academic Press url p. 156.
Notes
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Contributors
- BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- BirdLife International 2009. Actenoides lindsayi. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 29January2012.
- 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 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 9, 2012.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 03, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 11031
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-692756
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13816254
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 554620
- IUCN ID: 188807
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1387
Footnotes
- Mean = 26.000 meters (85.302 feet), Standard Deviation = 358.530 based on 15 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
