Which type of birds have the genus name of ‘Halcyon’?
Halcyon (genus) Halcyon (genus) Halcyon () is a genus of the tree kingfishers, near passerine birds in the subfamily Halcyoninae. The genus "Halcyon" was introduced by the English naturalist and artist William John Swainson in 1821. He named the type species as the woodland kingfisher ("Halcyon senegalensis"). "Halcyon" is a name for a bird in Greek legend generally associated with the kingfisher. There was an ancient belief that the bird nested on the sea, which it calmed in order to lay its eggs on a floating nest. Two weeks of calm weather were therefore expected around the winter solstice. This myth leads
Type genus Type genus In biological classification, especially zoology, the type genus is the genus which defines a biological family and the root of the family name. According to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, "The name-bearing type of a nominal family-group taxon is a nominal genus called the 'type genus'; the family-group name is based upon that of the type genus." Any family-group name must have a type genus (and any genus-group name must have a type species, but any species-group name may, but need not, have one or more type specimens). The type genus for a family-group name is also