Dendroplex
Straight-billed woodcreeper (Dendroplex picus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Furnariidae
Subfamily: Dendrocolaptinae
Genus: Dendroplex
Swainson, 1827
Type species
Oriolus picus
Species

Dendroplex kienerii
Dendroplex picus

Dendroplex is a genus of birds in the woodcreeper subfamily Dendrocolaptinae. It was long merged into Xiphorhynchus, but its distinctness has now been established.[1]

Taxonomy

The genus Dendroplex was introduced in 1827 by the English naturalist William John Swainson.[2] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek dendron meaning "tree" with plēssō meaning "to strike".[3] Swainson did not specify a type species but this was fixed in 2007 as the straight-billed woodcreeper which had first been described in 1788 by Johann Friedrich Gmelin with the binomial name Oriolus picus.[4][5]

The genus contains two species:[6]

Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
Dendroplex picus Straight-billed woodcreeper Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.
Dendroplex kienerii Zimmer's woodcreeper northeast Peru and southeast Colombia

References

  1. ^ Aleixo, Alexandre (2002). "Molecular systematics and the role of the "Várzea"–"Terra-Firme" ecotone in the diversification of Xiphorhynchus woodcreepers (Aves: Dendrocolaptidae)". The Auk. 119 (3): 621–640. doi:10.1093/auk/119.3.621.
  2. ^ Swainson, William John (1827). "On several groups and forms in ornithology, not hitherto defined". Zoological Journal. 3: 158–175, 343–363 [354].
  3. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 133. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  4. ^ Aleixo, A.; Gregory, S.M.S.; Penhallurick, J. (2007). "Fixation of the type species and revalidation of the genus Dendroplex Swainson, 1827 (Dendrocolaptidae)". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 127: 242–246.
  5. ^ Dickinson, E.C.; Christidis, L., eds. (2014). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Vol. 2: Passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 115. ISBN 978-0-9568611-2-2.
  6. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2023). "Ovenbirds, woodcreepers". IOC World Bird List Version 13.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 6 March 2023.


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