Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Coraciiformes > Alcedinidae > Corythornis cristatus > Corythornis cristatus naisCorythornis cristatus nais (Principe Kingfisher)Synonyms: Alcedo leucogaster nais; Alcedo nais; Corythornis nais The Príncipe kingfisher (Corythornis cristatus nais) is a bird in the family Alcedinidae. It is endemic to Príncipe an island off the west coast of Africa in the Gulf of Guinea. The first formal description of the species was by the German naturalist Johann Jakob Kaup in 1848 who gave it the binomial name Alcedo nais. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2008 showed that the Príncipe kingfisher is a subspecies of the malachite kingfisher. |
Adult Weight [1] | 15 grams |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
Príncipe forests |
São Tomé Principe |
A1, A2 |
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Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
Guinean Forests of West Africa |
Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Togo |
Yes |
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Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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