Corythornis
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{{Automatic taxobox
| name = Corythornis
| image = Malachite Kingfisher - Portrait.jpg
| image_caption = Malachite kingfisher (Corythornis cristatus)
| taxon = Corythornis
| authority = Kaup, 1848
| type_species = Alcedo nais
| type_species_authority = Kaup, 1848
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
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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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Corythornis is a genus of small African river kingfishers.
A molecular phylogenetic study of the alcedinine kingfishers published in 2007 found that the genera as then defined did not form monophyletic groups. The species were subsequently rearranged into four genera, with four species in the resurrected genus Corythornis.{{ cite journal | last1=Moyle | first1=R.G. | last2=Fuchs | first2=J. | last3=Pasquet | first3=E. | last4=Marks | first4=B.D. | year=2007 | title=Feeding behavior, toe count, and the phylogenetic relationships among alcedinine kingfishers (Alcedininae) | journal=Journal of Avian Biology | volume=38 | issue=3 | pages=317–326 | doi=10.1111/J.2007.0908-8857.03921.x }} The genus had been introduced by the German naturalist Johann Jakob Kaup in 1848.{{cite journal | last=Kaup | first=Johann Jakob | author-link=Johann Jakob Kaup | year=1848 | title=Die Familie der Eisvögel (Alcedidae) | journal=Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins für das Großherzogthum Hessen und Umgebung | volume=2 | pages=71–72 | oclc=183221382 | language=German }} The type species is the Príncipe kingfisher (Alcedo cristatus nais).{{ 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 | publisher=Harvard University Press | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=175 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14480186 }} Corythornis is the sister group to the genus Ispidina containing two small African kingfishers.
Species
The genus contains the following four species:{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2016 | title=Rollers, ground rollers & kingfishers | work=World Bird List Version 6.3 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/rollers/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=25 September 2016 }}
{{Species table |genus=Corythornis |authority-name= Kaup |authority-year=1848 |species-count=four|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}
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|name=Madagascar pygmy kingfisher |binomial=Corythornis madagascariensis
|image=File:Ceyx madagascariensis -Mantadia National Park, Madagascar-8.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Linnaeus|authority-year=1766 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= Madagascar
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|iucn-status= LC
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| C. m. madagascariensis - (Linnaeus, 1766)
| C. m. dilutus - (Benson, 1974)
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}}
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|name=White-bellied kingfisher |binomial=Corythornis leucogaster
|image=File:White-bellied Kingfisher - Ghana S4E2155 (cropped).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Fraser|authority-year= 1843 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= Guinea to Mali and Ghana, Nigeria to north west Angola, Bioko Island, east Congo to south Uganda and northwest Zambia
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| C. l. bowdleri (Neumann, 1908)
| C. l. leucogaster (Fraser, 1843)
| C. l. leopoldi (Dubois, AJC, 1905)
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{{Species table/row
|name=Malachite kingfisher |binomial=Corythornis cristatus
|image=File:Malachite kingfisher (Corythornis cristatus cristatus) Namibia.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Pallas |authority-year=1764 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= Sub-Saharan Africa except for the very arid parts of Somalia, Kenya, Namibia and Botswana.
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|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Five subspecies |bullets=on
| C. c. galeritus (Statius Müller, PL, 1776)
| C. c. nais (Kaup, 1848)
| C. c. thomensis Salvadori, 1902
| C. c. cristatus (Pallas, 1764)
| C. c. stuartkeithi Dickerman, 1989
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{{Species table/row
|name=Malagasy kingfisher |binomial=Corythornis vintsioides
|image=File:Madagascar malachite kingfisher (Corythornis vintsioides vintsioides).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Eydoux & Gervais|authority-year= 1836 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= Madagascar, Mayotte and the Comoros.
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|iucn-status= LC
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|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Two subspecies |bullets=on
| C. v. johannae Meinertzhagen, R., 1924
| C. v. vintsioides (Eydoux & Gervais, 1836) – Madagascar
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References
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Further reading
{{Commons category|Corythornis}}
- {{ cite book | last1=Fry | first1=C.H. | last2=Fry | first2=K. | year=1992 | title=Kingfishers, Bee-eaters and Rollers | place=London | publisher=Chris Helm | isbn= 0-7136-8028-8 }}
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