Golden-cheeked Woodpecker
Golden-cheeked Woodpecker
Here the details of the Golden-cheeked Woodpecker named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Picus chrysogenys Zool.Beechey'sVoy. p.24
Taxonomy: Piciformes / Picidae / Melanerpes
Taxonomy Code: gocwoo1
Type Locality: No locality, but either Mazatlan Sinaloa or San Bias or Tepic, Nayarit.
Author: Vigors
Publish Year: 1839
IUCN Status: Least Concern
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.
chrysogenys
Gr. χρυσος khrusos gold; γενυς genus, γενυος genuos cheek, chin, jaw.
SUBSPECIES
Golden-cheeked Woodpecker (chrysogenys)
SCI Name: Melanerpes chrysogenys chrysogenys
chrysogenys
Gr. χρυσος khrusos gold; γενυς genus, γενυος genuos cheek, chin, jaw.
Golden-cheeked Woodpecker (flavinuchus)
SCI Name: Melanerpes chrysogenys flavinuchus
flavinucha / flavinuchus
L. flavus yellow, golden-yellow; Med. L. nuchus nape < Arabic nukhā' spinal marrow.
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)