Dendropicos
| Dendropicos | |
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| Dendropicos fuscescens | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Picidae |
| Subfamily: | Picinae |
| Genus: | Dendropicos Malherbe, 1849 |
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Dendropicos is a genus of woodpeckers in the Picidae family that are native to Africa.
The genus Dendropicos formerly contained several additional species. A 2015 molecular phylogenetic study that analysed nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences from pied woodpeckers found that Dendropicos was polyphyletic. In the rearranged genera the bearded, fire-bellied and yellow breasted woodpeckers were moved to Chloropicus while the Arabian woodpecker was moved to Dendrocoptes.[1][2] The taxonomic committee of the British Ornithologists' Union have recommended an alternative arrangement of species in which the genera Dendrocoptes and Leiopicus are combined into a larger Dendropicos.[3]
The name of the genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Alfred Malherbe in 1849.[4] The word Dendropicos is from the Greek dendron meaning tree and pikos for woodpecker.[5]
The genus contains the following 12 species:[2]
- Little grey woodpecker (Dendropicos elachus)
- Speckle-breasted woodpecker (Dendropicos poecilolaemus)
- Abyssinian woodpecker (Dendropicos abyssinicus)
- Cardinal woodpecker (Dendropicos fuscescens)
- Gabon woodpecker (Dendropicos gabonensis)
- Melancholy woodpecker (Dendropicos lugubris)
- Stierling's woodpecker (Dendropicos stierlingi)
- Elliot's woodpecker (Dendropicos elliotii)
- African grey woodpecker (Dendropicos goertae)
- Eastern grey woodpecker (Dendropicos spodocephalus)
- Olive woodpecker (Dendropicos griseocephalus)
- Brown-backed woodpecker (Dendropicos obsoletus)
References
- ↑ 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.
- 1 2 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David (eds.). "Woodpeckers". World Bird List Version 6.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
- ↑ Sangster, G.; et al. (2016). "Taxonomic recommendations for Western Palearctic birds: 11th report". Ibis. 158 (1): 206–212. doi:10.1111/ibi.12322.
- ↑ Malherbe, Alfred (1849). "Nouvelle classification des picinée ou pics". Mémoires de l'Académie nationale de Metz (in French). 30: 316, 338.
- ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 133. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.