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

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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. ^ a b 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. ^ a b 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.


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