Dinopium

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Common flameback
(Dinopium javanense)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Tribe: Picini
Genus: Dinopium
Rafinesque, 1814
Type species
Dinopium (Picoides) erythronotus [1]
Rafinesque, 1814
Species

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Dinopium is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae. The species are found in South and Southeast Asia.

The genus was introduced by the French polymath Constantine Samuel Rafinesque in 1814 to accommodate the common flameback (Dinopium javanense). [2] [3] The name combines the Classical Greek deinos meaning "mighty" or "huge" and ōps/ōpos meaning "appearance". [4]

A large phylogenetic study of the woodpecker family Picidae published in 2017 found that the genus was paraphyletic. The olive-backed woodpecker (Dinopium rafflesii) is more closely related to the pale-headed woodpecker (Gecinulus grantia) than it is to other members of the genus Dinopium. [5]

Species

As presently constituted, the genus contains the following 5 species: [6]

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Himalayan Flameback (Dinopium shorii) female (21492912679) (2).jpg Dinopium shorii Himalayan flameback Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, and Nepal
Common Flame-back Woodpecker.jpg Dinopium javanense Common flameback Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam
TigaEverettiSmit.jpg Dinopium everetti Spot-throated flameback island of Palawan in the Philippines.
Flameback Woodpecker.jpg Dinopium benghalense Black-rumped flameback Pakistan, India south of the Himalayas and east till the western Assam valley and Meghalaya, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
Red-backed flameback - Sri Lanka - 02.jpg Dinopium psarodes Red-backed flameback Sri Lanka

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References

  1. "Picidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel (1814). Principes Fondamentaux de Somiologie (in French). Palerme. Inside front cover.
  3. Peters, James Lee, ed. (1948). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 6. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 143.
  4. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 136. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
  5. Shakya, S.B.; Fuchs, J.; Pons, J.-M.; Sheldon, F.H. (2017). "Tapping the woodpecker tree for evolutionary insight". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 116: 182–191. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.09.005 . PMID   28890006.
  6. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "Woodpeckers". IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 17 May 2020.