Williamson’s Sapsucker
Williamson's Sapsucker
Here the details of the Williamson's Sapsucker named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Picus thyroideus Proc.Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia 5(1851) p.349
Taxonomy: Piciformes / Picidae / Sphyrapicus
Taxonomy Code: wilsap
Type Locality: California, type from Georgetown, twelve miles from Sutter''s Mill, Eldorado Co.
Author: Cassin
Publish Year: 1852
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
SPHYRAPICUS
(Picidae; Ϯ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker S. varius) Gr. σφυρα sphura hammer, mallet; Late Gr. πικος pikos woodpecker < L. picus woodpecker; the sapsuckers drill rows of shallow holes in trees for the sap which then exudes; "SPHYRAPICUS, Baird. Pilumnus, BON. Consp. Zygod. Ateneo Italiano, May, 1854. (P. thyroideus.) ... The genus Pilumnus, originally established by Bonaparte, is used in the Crustacea, and cannot, of course, be again employed. In supplying a new name, I consider the old Picus varius as the type instead of thyroideus, which may possibly constitute the type of a distinct genus" (Baird 1858).
Var. Sphyropicus, Sphyrocopus (Gr. κοπος kopos striking).
Synon. Campoborus, Cladoscopus, Pilumnus.
thyroideus
Gr. θυρεος thureos large oblong shield < θυρα thura door; -οιδης -oidēs resembling.
SUBSPECIES
Williamson's Sapsucker (thyroideus)
SCI Name: Sphyrapicus thyroideus thyroideus
thyroideus
Gr. θυρεος thureos large oblong shield < θυρα thura door; -οιδης -oidēs resembling.
Williamson's Sapsucker (nataliae)
SCI Name: Sphyrapicus thyroideus nataliae
nataliae
● Caroline Natalie Rosalie Kaup (b. 1835) daughter of German systematist Johann J. Kaup (subsp. Sphyrapicus thyroideus).
● Female eponym; dedicatee not yet identified (S. A. Buturlin 1929, Sistematicheskiye zametki o ptitsakh Severnogo Kavkaza, 15) (subsp. Turdus philomelos).
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)