Leuconotopicus

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Leuconotopicus
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White-headed woodpecker (Leuconotopicus albolarvatus)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Tribe: Melanerpini
Genus: Leuconotopicus
Malherbe, 1845
Species

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Leuconotopicus is a genus of woodpeckers in the family Picidae native to North and South America.

Taxonomy

The genus was erected by the French ornithologist Alfred Malherbe in 1845 with Strickland's woodpecker (Leuconotopicus stricklandi) as the type species. [1] The name Leuconotopicus combines the Ancient Greek leukos meaning "white", nōton meaning "back" and pikos meaning "woodpecker". [2] The genus is sister to the genus Veniliornis and is one of eight genera placed in the tribe Melanerpini within the woodpecker subfamily Picinae. [3] The species now placed in this genus were previously assigned to Picoides . [4] [5]

The genus contains the following six species: [5]

Genus Leuconotopicus Malherbe, 1845 – six species
Common nameScientific name and subspeciesRangeSize and ecologyIUCN status and estimated population
Red-cockaded woodpecker

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Leuconotopicus borealis
(Vieillot, 1809)
southeastern United States from Florida to Virginia, as far west as eastern Texas and Oklahoma; formerly Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, and Tennessee
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Smoky-brown woodpecker

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Male
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Leuconotopicus fumigatus
(D'Orbigny, 1840)

Five subspecies
Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela
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Arizona woodpecker

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Leuconotopicus arizonae
(Hargitt, 1886)
southern Arizona and New Mexico and the Sierra Madre Occidental of western Mexico
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Strickland's woodpecker


Leuconotopicus stricklandi
(Malherbe, 1845)
Mexico
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Hairy woodpecker

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Male
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Leuconotopicus villosus
(Linnaeus, 1766)

Seventeen subspecies
  • L. v. septentrionalis (Nuttall, 1840)
  • L. v. picoideus (Osgood, 1901)
  • L. v. harrisi (Audubon, 1838)
  • L. v. terraenovae (Batchelder, 1908)
  • L. v. villosus (Linnaeus, 1766)
  • L. v. orius (Oberholser, 1911)
  • L. v. monticola (Anthony, 1898)
  • L. v. leucothorectis (Oberholser, 1911)
  • L. v. audubonii (Swainson, 1832)
  • L. v. hyloscopus (Cabanis & Heine, 1863)
  • L. v. icastus (Oberholser, 1911)
  • L. v. intermedius (Nelson, 1900)
  • L. v. jardinii Malherbe, 1845
  • L. v. sanctorum (Nelson, 1897)
  • L. v. extimus (Bangs, 1902)
  • L. v. piger (Allen, GM, 1905)
  • L. v. maynardi (Ridgway, 1887)
Bahamas, Canada, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and the United States; vagrant to Puerto Rico, Turks and Caicos Islands
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White-headed woodpecker

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Leuconotopicus albolarvatus
(Cassin, 1850)

Two subspecies
  • L. a. albolarvatus(Cassin, 1850)
    Common white-headed woodpecker
  • L. a. gravirostris(Grinnell, 1902)
    Southern white-headed woodpecker
British Columbia through southern California
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Related Research Articles

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<i>Blythipicus</i> Genus of birds

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References

  1. Malherbe, Alfred (1845). "Description de trois espèces nouvelles du genre Picus, Linné". Revue Zoologique par la Société Cuvierienne (in French and Latin). 8: 373.
  2. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p.  103. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
  3. 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.
  4. Fuchs, J.; Pons, J.M. (2015). "A new classification of the pied woodpeckers assemblage (Dendropicini, Picidae) based on a comprehensive multi-locus phylogeny". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 88: 28–37. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.03.016. PMID   25818851.
  5. 1 2 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David (eds.). "Woodpeckers". World Bird List Version 6.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 5 May 2016.