Biology:Veniliornis
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Short description: Genus of birds
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| A male yellow-eared woodpecker (Veniliornis maculifrons) in Ilha Grande, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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
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Veniliornis is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae. They are native to Central and South America.
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]
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Scarlet-backed woodpecker | Veniliornis callonotus | Colombia, Ecuador and northern Peru |
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Yellow-vented woodpecker | Veniliornis dignus | Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela |
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Bar-bellied woodpecker | Veniliornis nigriceps | Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. |
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Little woodpecker | Veniliornis passerinus | South America east of the Andes |
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Dot-fronted woodpecker | Veniliornis frontalis | Argentina and Bolivia. |
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White-spotted woodpecker | Veniliornis spilogaster | Brazil, Uruguay, eastern Paraguay and northeastern Argentina. |
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Blood-colored woodpecker | Veniliornis sanguineus | Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana |
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Red-rumped woodpecker | Veniliornis kirkii | Costa Rica south and east to Ecuador, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago |
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Red-stained woodpecker | Veniliornis affinis | eastern Brazil and the Amazon Basin. |
| Chocó woodpecker | Veniliornis chocoensis | Colombia and Ecuador. | |
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Golden-collared woodpecker | Veniliornis cassini | northern Brazil, the Guianas, Venezuela and far eastern Colombia. |
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Yellow-eared woodpecker | Veniliornis maculifrons | eastern Brazil. |
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Striped woodpecker | Veniliornis lignarius – formerly in Picoides[7][8] | southwestern South America. |
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Checkered woodpecker | Veniliornis mixtus – formerly in Picoides[7][8] | eastern South America. |
References
- ↑ "Picidae". The Trust for Avian Systematics. https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=96.
- ↑ Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1854). "Quadro dei volucri zigodattili ossia passeri a piedi scansori". in de Luca, Serafino; Müller, D. (in it). L'Ateneo Italiano; raccolta di documenti e memorie relative al progresso delle scienze fisiche. 2. Parigi [Paris]: Victor Masson. pp. 116–129 [125]. https://books.google.com/books?id=BR1pAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA125.
- ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 399–400. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4. https://archive.org/details/helmdictionarysc00jobl.
- ↑ Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 92. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/17136731.
- ↑ The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 1: Non-passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. 2013. p. 318. ISBN 978-0-9568611-0-8.
- ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. "Woodpeckers". World Bird List Version 6.2. International Ornithologists' Union. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/woodpeckers/.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Donegan, Thomas (January 2007). "Proposal (#262) South American Classification Committee: Transfer Picoides mixtus and P. lignarius to Veniliornis". American Ornithologists' Union. http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCprop262.html.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 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.
Wikidata ☰ Q1080978 entry
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