| Dendroplex | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Straight-billed woodcreeper (Dendroplex picus) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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 is a genus of birds in the woodcreeper subfamily Dendrocolaptinae. It was long merged into Xiphorhynchus , but its distinctness has now been established. [1]
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 |
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Setophaga is a genus of birds of the New World warbler family Parulidae. It contains at least 34 species. The Setophaga warblers are an example of adaptive radiation with the various species using different feeding techniques and often feeding in different parts of the same tree.
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Fluvicola is a genus of birds in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae.
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