Lilac kingfisher Lilac kingfisher The lilac kingfisher or Celebes flat-billed kingfisher ("Cittura cyanotis") is a resident breeding bird in the lowlands of the Indonesia island of Sulawesi and the neighbouring Sangihe and Talaud Islands. It is the only member of the genus "Cittura". The first formal description of the lilac kingfisher was by the Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck in 1824 under the binomial name "Dacelo cyanotis". The genus "Cittura" was introduced by the German naturalist Johann Jakob Kaup in 1848. The genus name is from classical Greek "kitta" for "magpie" and "oura" for "tail". The specific epithet "cyanotis" is from classical
Shining-blue kingfisher two subspecies: Shining-blue kingfisher The shining-blue kingfisher ("Alcedo quadribrachys") is a species of bird in the family Alcedinidae. It is found in Equatorial Africa. The shining-blue kingfisher was described of by the French ornithologist Charles Lucian Bonaparte in 1850 and given its current binomial name "Alcedo quadribrachys". The name "Alcedo" is the Latin word for a "kingfisher". The specific epithet "quadribrachys" is from the Latin "quadri-" for "four" and "brachium" meaning "arms" or in this case "toes". The shining-blue kingfisher is one of seven species in the genus "Alcedo" and is most closely related to the half-collared kingfisher ("Alcedo semitorquata").