Subfamily Alcedininae Scientific name Alcedo nais Rank Species | Phylum Chordata Family Alcedinidae Higher classification Alcedo | |
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Similar São Tomé kingfisher, White‑bellied kingfisher, Bismarck kingfisher, Buru dwarf kingfisher, Kingfisher | ||
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.
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