Puerto Rican Woodpecker

Puerto Rican Woodpecker / Melanerpes portoricensis

Puerto Rican Woodpecker

Here the details of the Puerto Rican Woodpecker named bird below:

SCI Name:  Melanerpes portoricensis
Protonym:  Picus portoricensis Ann.Mus.Hist.Nat.Paris 2 p.286 pl.51
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Picidae /
Taxonomy Code:  purwoo1
Type Locality:  Puerto Rico.
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Publish Year:  1803
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DEFINITIONS

MELANERPES
(Picidae; Ϯ Red-headed Woodpecker M. erythrocephalus) Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black; ἑρπης herpēs  creeper  < ἑρπω herpō  to crawl; "1. MELANERPES ERYTHROCEPHALUS. (Sw.)  Red-headed Woodpecker.   GENUS, Melanerpes*, SWAINS.   Sub-genus, (Typical form) SWAINS.   ...   This Woodpecker, so well known in the United States for the havoc it commits in the orchards, ranges in summer from the northern shores of Lake Huron to the Gulf of Mexico.   ...   *Th. μελας, niger, et ερπο, repo" (Swainson 1832); "Melanerpes Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., 2, 1831 (1832), p. 316. Type, by monotypy, Picus erythrocephalus Linné." (Peters 1948, VI, 157).
Var. Melanoherpes, Malanerpes.
Synon. Asyndesmus, Balanosphyra, Cactocraugus, Centurus, Chryserpes, Colombpicus, Leuconerpes, Leucopicus, Linneopicus, Melampicos, Meropicus, Phymatoblepharus, Trichopicus, Trichopipo, Tripsurus, Zebrapicus.

portoricensis
Porto Rico / Puerto Rico.