Ceryle americana (Brazilian green kingfisher) = Chloroceryle americana (green kingfisher)

Query: cerylinae

Result: 3^rd of 34

Subject:	Ceryle americana (Brazilian green kingfisher) = Chloroceryle americana (green kingfisher)
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Ceryle americana (Brazilian green kingfisher) By John Gerrard Keulemans (1842-1912)
Date 1868-71.
Source https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43064596
Author Richard Bowdler Sharpe
Full title A monograph of the Alcedinidae : or, family of kingfishers /
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AA_monograph_of_the_Alcedinidae_%2819210674964%29.jpg

The green kingfisher (Chloroceryle americana) is a species of "water kingfishers" in subfamily Cerylinae of family Alcedinidae. It is found from southern Texas in the United States south through Central America, in every mainland South American country except Chile, and on Trinidad and Tobago. The prey of green kingfisher is mostly small fish but includes crustaceans such as shrimp and also adult and nymph aquatic and terrestrial insects.

Order: Coraciiformes
Family: Alcedinidae
Subfamily: Cerylinae
Genus: Chloroceryle
Species: Chloroceryle americana (Gmelin, JF, 1788)

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