Actenoides

Actenoides is a genus of kingfishers in the subfamily Halcyoninae.

Actenoides
Green-backed kingfisher (Actenoides monachus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Coraciiformes
Family:	Alcedinidae
Subfamily:	Halcyoninae
Genus:	Actenoides Bonaparte, 1850
Species
see text

Phylogeny

Actenoides Glittering kingfisher (Caridonax fulgidus) Scaly-breasted kingfisher Green-backed kingfisher Spotted wood kingfisher Blue-capped kingfisher Rufous-collared kingfisher Moustached kingfisher

Cladogram based on the molecular analysis by Andersen and colleagues published in 2017.[1]

The genus Actenoides was introduced by the French ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1850. The type species is Hombron's kingfisher (Actenoides hombroni).^[2] The name of the genus is from the Ancient Greek aktis, aktinos for "beam" or "brightness" and -oidēs for "resembling".^[3] A molecular study published in 2017 found that the genus Actenoides, as currently defined, is paraphyletic. The glittering kingfisher in the monotypic genus Caridonax is a member of the clade containing the species in the genus Actenoides.^[1]

Species

The genus contains the following species:^[4]

Genus Actenoides – Bonaparte, 1850 – six species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Green-backed kingfisher Male Female	Actenoides monachus (Bonaparte, 1850) Two subspecies A. m. monachus - (Bonaparte, 1850) A. m. capucinus - (Meyer, AB & Wiglesworth, 1896)	north and central Sulawesi, and the islands of Manadotua and Lembeh	Size: Habitat: Diet:	NT
Scaly-breasted kingfisher Male Female	Actenoides princeps (Reichenbach, 1851) Three subspecies A. p. princeps - (Reichenbach, 1851) A. p. erythrorhamphus - (Stresemann, 1931) A. p. regalis - (Stresemann, 1932)	central and southwestern Sulawesi in Indonesia	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Moustached kingfisher	Actenoides bougainvillei (Rothschild, 1904) Two subspecies A. b. bougainvillei - (Rothschild, 1904) A. b. excelsus - (Mayr, 1941)	Bougainville Island in Papua New Guinea.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Spotted wood kingfisher Male Female	Actenoides lindsayi (Vigors, 1831) Two subspecies A. l. lindsayi - Vigors, 1831 A. l. moseleyi - Steere, 1890	the Philippines found on the islands of Luzon, Catanduanes, Marinduque, Negros and Panay	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Blue-capped kingfisher, or Hombron's kingfisher	Actenoides hombroni Bonaparte, 1850	the Philippines (Mindanao).	Size: Habitat: Diet:	VU
Rufous-collared kingfisher	Actenoides concretus (Temminck, 1825) Three subspecies A. c. peristephes - (Deignan, 1946) A. c. concretus - (Temminck, 1825) A. c. borneanus - (Chasen & Kloss, 1930)	Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC