Mulleripicus

Mulleripicus
A pair of ashy woodpeckers (Mulleripicus fulvus)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Piciformes
Family:	Picidae
Tribe:	Picini
Genus:	Mulleripicus Bonaparte, 1854
Type species
Picus pulverulentus [1] Temminck, 1826
Species
see text

Mulleripicus is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae. They are found in South and Southeast Asia. The genus forms part of the woodpecker subfamily Picinae and has a sister relationship to the genus Dryocopus whose species are widely distributed in Eurasia and the Americas.

Taxonomy

The genus Mulleripicus was erected by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte to accommodate the great slaty woodpecker (Mulleripicus pulverulentus). ^[2] The genus name honours the German naturalist Salomon Müller, ^[3] The genus belongs to the tribe Picini and is a member of a clade that contains the five genera: Colaptes , Piculus , Mulleripicus, Dryocopus and Celeus . ^[4]

The genus contains four species. ^[5]

Genus 'Mulleripicus – Bonaparte, 1854 – four species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Ashy woodpecker Male Female	Mulleripicus fulvus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)	Sulawesi and surrounding islands in Indonesia	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Northern sooty woodpecker	Mulleripicus funebris (Valenciennes, 1826)	Luzon, Marinduque, Catanduanes and the Polillo Islands in the Philippines	Size: Habitat: Diet:	NT
Southern sooty woodpecker	Mulleripicus fuliginosus Tweeddale, 1877	Mindanao, Leyte, and Samar	Size: Habitat: Diet:	VU
Great slaty woodpecker	Mulleripicus pulverulentus (, )	Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC

References

1. "Picidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
2. Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1854). "Quadro dei volucri zigodattili ossia passeri a piedi scansori". In de Luca, Serafino; Müller, D. (eds.). L'Ateneo Italiano; raccolta di documenti e memorie relative al progresso delle scienze fisiche (in Italian). Vol. 2. Parigi [Paris]: Victor Masson. pp. 116–129 [122].
3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . London: Christopher Helm. p.  261. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
4. 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. Bibcode:2017MolPE.116..182S. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.09.005 . PMID   28890006.
5. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "Woodpeckers". IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 17 May 2020.