Dendroplex

Dendroplex
Straight-billed woodcreeper (Dendroplex picus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Furnariidae
Subfamily:	Dendrocolaptinae
Genus:	Dendroplex Swainson, 1827
Type species
Oriolus picus Gmelin, JF, 1788
Species
Dendroplex kienerii Dendroplex picus

Dendroplex is a genus of birds in the woodcreeper subfamily Dendrocolaptinae. It was long merged into Xiphorhynchus , but its distinctness has now been established. ^[1]

Taxonomy

The genus Dendroplex was introduced in 1827 by the English naturalist William Swainson. ^[2] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek dendron meaning "tree" with plēssō meaning "to strike". ^[3] Swainson did not specify a type species but this was fixed in 2007 as the straight-billed woodcreeper which had first been described in 1788 by Johann Friedrich Gmelin with the binomial name Oriolus picus. ^{[4] [5]}

The genus contains two species: ^[6]

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	Dendroplex picus	Straight-billed woodcreeper	Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.
	Dendroplex kienerii	Zimmer's woodcreeper	Amazon river and tributaries

References

1. Aleixo, Alexandre (2002). "Molecular systematics and the role of the "Várzea"–"Terra-Firme" ecotone in the diversification of Xiphorhynchus woodcreepers (Aves: Dendrocolaptidae)". The Auk. 119 (3): 621–640. doi: 10.1093/auk/119.3.621 .
2. Swainson, William (1827). "On several groups and forms in ornithology, not hitherto defined". Zoological Journal. 3: 158–175, 343–363 [354].
3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 133. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
4. Aleixo, A.; Gregory, S.M.S.; Penhallurick, J. (2007). "Fixation of the type species and revalidation of the genus Dendroplex Swainson, 1827 (Dendrocolaptidae)". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 127: 242–246.
5. Dickinson, E.C.; Christidis, L., eds. (2014). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Vol. 2: Passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 115. ISBN   978-0-9568611-2-2.
6. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2023). "Ovenbirds, woodcreepers". IOC World Bird List Version 13.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 6 March 2023.