White-headed Woodpecker
White-headed Woodpecker
Here the details of the White-headed Woodpecker named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Leuconerpes albolarvatus Proc.Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia 5 p.106
Taxonomy: Piciformes / Picidae / Dryobates
Taxonomy Code: whhwoo
Type Locality: Oregon Canyon, Eldorado Co., California.
Author: Cassin
Publish Year: 1850
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
DRYOBATES
(Picidae; Ϯ Downy Woodpecker D. pubescens) Gr. δρυς drus, δρυος druos tree; βατης batēs walker < βατεω bateō to tread < βαινω bainō to walk; "XXIX. Fam. Picidae ... Dryobates: Picus pubescens Gm. u. s. w." (Boie 1826); “In the 1st edition of the List and in the Cat. Birds B. M. the generic name Dendrocopus is used. This was first introduced by Koch [Dendrocopos 1816] ... for the Spotted Woodpeckers. The same name, however, had previously been used by Vieillot [1816] ... The type of Vieillot’s Dendrocopus is either “le Picucule” or “le Talapiot” of Daubenton, now known respectively as Dendrocolaptes certhia (Bodd.) and Dendroplex picus (Gmel.), both of which belong to the family Dendrocolaptidae. Dendrocopus cannot therefore be used for the Spotted Woodpeckers.” (BOU 1915); "Dryobates Boie, Isis von Oken, 1826, Bd. 2, col. 977. Type, by monotypy, Picus pubescens Linné." (Peters, 1948, VI, p. 180).
Synon. Hyloscopus.
dryobates
Gr. δρυς drus, δρυος druos tree; βατης batēs walker < βατεω bateō to tread < βαινω bainō to walk.
albolarvatus
L. albus white; larvatus masked < larva mask.
SUBSPECIES
White-headed Woodpecker (albolarvatus)
SCI Name: Dryobates albolarvatus albolarvatus
albolarvatus
L. albus white; larvatus masked < larva mask.
White-headed Woodpecker (gravirostris)
SCI Name: Dryobates albolarvatus gravirostris
gravirostris
L. gravis heavy; -rostris -billed < rostrum beak.
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)