Dryobates

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Dryobates
Picoides nuttallii -Olive View, Sylmar, California, USA -male-8.jpg
Male Nuttall's woodpecker in California, USA
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Tribe: Melanerpini
Genus: Dryobates
F. Boie, 1826
Species

Six, see text

Dryobates is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae. The species are widely distributed and occur in both Eurasia and the Americas.

Taxonomy[]

The genus Dryobates was named by the German naturalist Friedrich Boie in 1826 with the downy woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens) as the type species.[1]

The genus name Dryobates is from the Greek compound word δρυο-βάτης : 'woodland walker'; from δρῦς : drus (genitive δρυός : dryós) meaning woodland and -βάτης : -bátēs meaning walker.[2] In the eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, the genus Dryobates is expanded to include all the species in Leuconotopicus and Veniliornis.[3]

The genus contains the following species:[4]

Male Female Scientific name Common Name Distribution
Nuttall's Woodpecker.jpg Picoides nuttallii -Olive View, Sylmar, California, USA -female-8.jpg Dryobates nuttalli Nuttall's woodpecker northern California extending south towards the northwest region of Baja California, Mexico
Downy Woodpecker01.jpg Downy Woodpecker02.jpg Dryobates pubescens Downy woodpecker North America
Ladder-back Woodpecker on Cactus.jpg Ladder-backed Woodpecker. NRCS photo by Beverly Moseley. (24995553812).jpg Dryobates scalaris Ladder-backed woodpecker southwestern United States (north to extreme southern Nevada and extreme southeastern Colorado), most of Mexico, and locally in Central America as far south as Nicaragua
Dendrocopos minor 291108.jpg Dendrocopos minor female perching on a branch.jpg Dryobates minor Lesser spotted woodpecker Europe
Crimson-breasted Woodpecker - Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary - Arunachal Pradesh, India.jpg Dryobates cathpharius Crimson-breasted woodpecker Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam

References[]

  1. ^ Boie, Friedrich (1826). "Generalübersicht". Isis von Oken (in German). Jena. 18–19. Col 977.
  2. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 140. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  3. ^ Clements, J.F.; Schulenberg, T.S.; Iliff, M.J.; Billerman, S.M.; Fredericks, T.A.; Sullivan, B.L.; Wood, C.L. (2019). "The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019". Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  4. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David (eds.). "Woodpeckers". World Bird List Version 6.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
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