Veniliornis

Veniliornis
A male yellow-eared woodpecker (Veniliornis maculifrons) in Ilha Grande, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Piciformes
Family:	Picidae
Tribe:	Melanerpini
Genus:	Veniliornis Bonaparte, 1854
Type species
Picus sanguineus [1] Lichtenstein, 1793
Species
see text

Veniliornis is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae. They are native to the Neotropics.

Taxonomy

The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1854. ^[2] The word Veniliornis combines the name of the Roman deity Venilia with the Greek word ornis meaning "bird". ^[3] The type species was designated as the blood-colored woodpecker (Veniliornis sanguineus) by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855. ^{[4] [5]}

The genus contains the following 14 species: ^[6]

Image	Common name	Scientific name	Distribution
	Scarlet-backed woodpecker	Veniliornis callonotus	Colombia, Ecuador and northern Peru
	Yellow-vented woodpecker	Veniliornis dignus	Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela
	Bar-bellied woodpecker	Veniliornis nigriceps	Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
	Little woodpecker	Veniliornis passerinus	South America east of the Andes
	Dot-fronted woodpecker	Veniliornis frontalis	Argentina and Bolivia.
	White-spotted woodpecker	Veniliornis spilogaster	Brazil, Uruguay, eastern Paraguay and northeastern Argentina.
	Blood-colored woodpecker	Veniliornis sanguineus	Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana
	Red-rumped woodpecker	Veniliornis kirkii	Costa Rica south and east to Ecuador, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago
	Red-stained woodpecker	Veniliornis affinis	eastern Brazil and the Amazon Basin.
	Chocó woodpecker	Veniliornis chocoensis	Colombia and Ecuador.
	Golden-collared woodpecker	Veniliornis cassini	northern Brazil, the Guianas, Venezuela and far eastern Colombia.
	Yellow-eared woodpecker	Veniliornis maculifrons	eastern Brazil.
	Striped woodpecker	Veniliornis lignarius– formerly in Picoides [7] [8]	southwestern South America.
	Checkered woodpecker	Veniliornis mixtus– formerly in Picoides [7] [8]	eastern South America.

References

1. "Picidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-25.
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 [125].
3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . London: Christopher Helm. pp.  399–400. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
4. Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 92.
5. Dickinson, E.C.; Remsen, J.V. Jr., eds. (2013). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Vol. 1: Non-passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 318. ISBN   978-0-9568611-0-8.
6. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David (eds.). "Woodpeckers". World Bird List Version 6.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
7. Donegan, Thomas (January 2007). "Proposal (#262) South American Classification Committee: Transfer Picoides mixtus and P. lignarius to Veniliornis". American Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
8. Moore, W.S.; Weibel, A.C.; Agius, A. (2006). "Mitochondrial DNA phylogeny of the woodpecker genus Veniliornis (Picidae, Picinae) and related genera implies convergent evolution of plumage patterns". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 87 (4): 611–624. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00586.x .