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]

São Tomé kingfisher
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Class: Aves
Order: Coraciiformes
Family: Alcedinidae
Subfamily: Alcedininae
Genus: Corythornis
Species:
C. cristatus
Subspecies:
C. c. thomensis
Trinomial name
Corythornis cristatus thomensis
(Salvadori, 1902)
Synonyms
  • Alcedo thomensis

Its' habitat includes forest, inland wetlands, marine intertidal areas, marine coastal areas, and urban areas.[5]

References
  1. BirdLife International (2018). "Corythornis thomensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22683099A131394455. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22683099A131394455.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 176.
  3. Salvadori, Tommaso (1902). "On a new kingfisher of the genus Corythornis". Ibis. 8th series. 2 (4): 568. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1902.tb03611.x.
  4. 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.
  5. "Sao Tome Kingfisher". IUCN RedList.
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