Mulleripicus

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Mulleripicus
Ashy Woodpeckers (Mulleripicus fulvus) on tree trunk.jpg
A pair of ashy woodpeckers (Mulleripicus fulvus)
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Tribe: Picini
Genus: Mulleripicus
Bonaparte, 1854
Species

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Mulleripicus is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae. They are found in South and Southeast Asia. The genus forms part of the woodpecker subfamily Picinae and has a sister relationship to the genus Dryocopus whose species are widely distributed in Eurasia and the Americas.

Taxonomy[]

The genus Mulleripicus was erected by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte to accommodate the great slaty woodpecker (Mulleripicus pulverulentus).[1] The genus name honours the German naturalist Salomon Müller,[2] The genus belongs to the tribe Picini and is a member of a clade that contains the five genera: Colaptes, Piculus, Mulleripicus, Dryocopus and Celeus.[3]

The genus contains four species.[4]

Image Scientific name Common name Distribution
Ashy Woodpecker (Mulleripicus fulvus) on tree trunk (crop 1).jpg Mulleripicus fulvus Ashy woodpecker Sulawesi and surrounding islands in Indonesia
Mulleripicus funebris.jpg Mulleripicus funebris Northern sooty woodpecker Luzon, Marinduque, Catanduanes and the Polillo Islands in the Philippines
Mulleripicus fulginosus Southern sooty woodpecker Mindanao, Leyte, and Samar
Great Slaty Woodpecker Kaladhungi Nainital Uttarakhand India 07.10.2014.jpg Mulleripicus pulverulentus Great slaty woodpecker Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam

References[]

  1. ^ 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). Volume 2. Parigi [Paris]: Victor Masson. pp. 116–129 [122]. |volume= has extra text (help)
  2. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 261. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  3. ^ Shakya, S.B.; Fuchs, J.; Pons, J.M.; Sheldon, F.H. (2017). "Tapping the woodpecker tree for evolutionary insight". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 116: 182–191. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.09.005. PMID 28890006.
  4. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "Woodpeckers". IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 17 May 2020.


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