Shining-blue kingfisher
The shining-blue kingfisher is a species of bird in the family Alcedinidae. It is found in Equatorial Africa.
The shining-blue kingfisher was described of by the French ornithologist Charles Lucian Bonaparte in 1850 and given its current binomial name Alcedo quadribrachys. The name Alcedo is the Latin word for a "kingfisher". The specific epithet quadribrachys is from the Latin quadri- for "four" and brachium meaning "arms" or in this case "toes".
The shining-blue kingfisher is one of seven species in the genus Alcedo and is most closely related to the half-collared kingfisher.
There are two subspecies:
