Fire-bellied Woodpecker

Fire-bellied Woodpecker / Chloropicus pyrrhogaster

Fire-bellied Woodpecker

Here the details of the Fire-bellied Woodpecker named bird below:

SCI Name:  Chloropicus pyrrhogaster
Protonym:  Picus (Chloropicus) Pyrrhogaster Rev.Zool. 8 p.399
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Picidae /
Taxonomy Code:  fibwoo1
Type Locality:  South Africa = Sierra Leone.
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Publish Year:  1845
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DEFINITIONS

Chloropicus
(Picidae; syn. Dendropicos † Fire-bellied Woodpecker D. pyrrhogaster) Gr. χλωρος khlōros  green; Late Gr. πικος pikos  woodpecker  < L. picus  woodpecker; "1. P. (Chloropicus) PYRRHOGASTER.   ...   2.       P. (Brachypternopicus) RUBROPYGIALIS.  ...  3. P. (Chloropicus) KIRKII.   ...   4. P. (Chloropicus) RUFOVIRIDIS.   ...   5. P. (Chloropicus) XANTHODERUS." (Malherbe 1845); "Chloropicus Malherbe, 1845, Revue Zoologique, VIII, p. 399.  For the benefit of The Key, type here fixed by subsequent designation, Picus (Chloropicus) pyrrhogaster Malherbe, 1845." (JAJ 2021).   
Var. Chloropicos.

pyrrhogaster / pyrrhogastra
Gr. πυρρος purrhos  flame-coloured, red  < πυρ pur, πυρος puros  fire; γαστηρ gastēr, γαστρος gastros  belly.