Register of Antarctic Species (RAS) - Halcyon Swainson, 1821

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RAS taxon details

Halcyon Swainson, 1821

AphiaID

206709 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206709)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Alcedinidae Rafinesque, 1815

Direct children (1)

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Species Halcyon chloris (Boddaert, 1783) accepted as Todiramphus chloris (Boddaert, 1783) (synonym)

Environment

brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

RAS (2021). Halcyon Swainson, 1821. Accessed at: http://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206709 on 2025-09-13

Regional species database citation

RAS (Eds.) (2025). Register of Antarctic Species. Halcyon Swainson, 1821. Accessed at: https://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206709 on 2025-09-13

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1998-06-25 14:48:23Z

created

Depew, Lorna

1998-09-25 09:27:15Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2020-06-25 07:35:06Z

changed

Decock, Wim

[taxonomic tree]

basis of record Fry, C. H.; Keith, S.; Urban, E. K. (1988). The Birds of Africa, Volume III. <em>Academic Press, London.</em> [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Halcyon)
To Genbank
To ITIS