Green kingfisher

Green kingfisher
Male C. a. americana
the Pantanal, Brazil
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Coraciiformes
Family: Alcedinidae
Subfamily: Cerylinae
Genus: Chloroceryle
Species:
C. americana
Binomial name
Chloroceryle americana
(Gmelin, JF, 1788)
Subspecies

C. a. americana
C. a. mathewsii
C. a. hachisukai
C. a. septentrionalis
C. a. cabanisii

Male C. a. septentrionalis, Panama

The green kingfisher (Chloroceryle americana) is a species of "water kingfisher" in the subfamily Cerylinae of the family Alcedinidae. It is found from southern Texas in the United States south through Central America, in every mainland South American country except Chile and Trinidad and Tobago.[2][3]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2020). "Chloroceryle americana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T22683652A168876516. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T22683652A168876516.en. Retrieved 25 December 2022.
  2. ^ HBW and BirdLife International (2022) Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International digital checklist of the birds of the world. Version 7. Available at: http://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/Species/Taxonomy/HBW-BirdLife_Checklist_v7_Dec22.zip Archived 2023-01-16 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 13 December 2022
  3. ^ Remsen, J. V., Jr., J. I. Areta, E. Bonaccorso, S. Claramunt, A. Jaramillo, D. F. Lane, J. F. Pacheco, M. B. Robbins, F. G. Stiles, and K. J. Zimmer. Version 24 July 2022. Species Lists of Birds for South American Countries and Territories. https://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCCountryLists.htm Archived 2021-10-04 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 24 July 2022