Mulleripicus

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Mulleripicus
Ashy Woodpeckers (Mulleripicus fulvus) on tree trunk.jpg
A pair of ashy woodpeckers (Mulleripicus fulvus)
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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 nameScientific name and subspeciesRangeSize and ecologyIUCN status and estimated population
Ashy woodpecker

Ashy Woodpecker (Mulleripicus fulvus) on tree trunk (crop 1).jpg
Male
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Female

Mulleripicus fulvus
(Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)
Sulawesi and surrounding islands in IndonesiaSize:

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 LC 


Northern sooty woodpecker

Mulleripicus funebris.jpg

Mulleripicus funebris
(Valenciennes, 1826)
Luzon, Marinduque, Catanduanes and the Polillo Islands in the PhilippinesSize:

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 NT 


Southern sooty woodpecker


Mulleripicus fuliginosus
Tweeddale, 1877
Mindanao, Leyte, and SamarSize:

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 VU 


Great slaty woodpecker

Great Slaty Woodpecker Kaladhungi Nainital Uttarakhand India 07.10.2014.jpg

Mulleripicus pulverulentus
(, )
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam
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 LC 



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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.