Alcedo

{{Short description|Genus of birds}}

{{about|the kingfisher genus}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis.jpg

| image_caption = Common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)

| taxon = Alcedo

| authority = Linnaeus, 1758

| type_species = Alcedo ispida

| type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1758

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text

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{{cladogram|title=Phylogeny

|caption=Cladogram based on Andersen et al. (2017){{ cite journal | last1=Andersen | first1=M.J. | last2=McCullough | first2=J.M. | last3=Mauck III | first3=W.M. | last4=Smith | first4=B.T. | last5=Moyle | first5=R.G. | year=2017 | title=A phylogeny of kingfishers reveals an Indomalayan origin and elevated rates of diversification on oceanic islands | journal=Journal of Biogeography | volume=45 | issue=2 | pages=1–13 | doi=10.1111/jbi.13139 | doi-access=free }}

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|label1=Alcedo

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|1=Javan blue-banded kingfisher

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|1={{clade

|1=Blue-eared kingfisher

|2=Blyth's kingfisher

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|1={{clade

|1=Half-collared kingfisher

|2=Shining-blue kingfisher

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|2={{clade

|1=Cerulean kingfisher

|2=Common kingfisher

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Alcedo is a genus of birds in the kingfisher subfamily Alcedininae. The genus was introduced by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae.{{cite book | last=Linnaeus | first=C. | author-link=Carl Linnaeus | year=1758 | title= Systema Naturæ per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Volume 1| volume=1 | edition=10th | page=115 | publisher=Holmiae:Laurentii Salvii | language=la | url= https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/727020 }} The type species is the common kingfisher (Alcedo ispida, now Alcedo atthis ispida).{{ cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee | editor-link=James L. Peters | year=1945 | title=Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 5 | volume=5 | publisher=Harvard University Press | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=170 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14480181 }} Alcedo is the Latin for "kingfisher".{{cite book | last= Jobling | first= James A | year= 2010| title= The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url= https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling | publisher= Christopher Helm | location = London | isbn = 978-1-4081-2501-4 | page = [https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling/page/n40 40]}}