Green-backed Woodpecker
Green-backed Woodpecker
Here the details of the Green-backed Woodpecker named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Chrysopicos Cailliautii Rev.Mag.Zool. (2), 1 p.540
Taxonomy: Piciformes / Picidae / Campethera
Taxonomy Code: grbwoo2
Type Locality: Africa; Mombasa designated by C. H. B. Grant, Ibis, 1915, p. 454, 455.
Author: Malherbe
Publish Year: 1849
IUCN Status:
DEFINITIONS
CAMPETHERA
(Picidae; Ϯ Little Green Woodpecker C. maculosa) Gr. καμπη kampē caterpillar; -θηρας -thēras hunter < θηραω thēraō to hunt < θηρ thēr, θηρος thēros beast, animal; "CAMPETHERA, G. R. Gray (1841). Dendromus a, Swains. Picus, Swains. C. brachyrhyncha, (Swains.) G. R. Gray. ... a Used in Mammalogy." (G. Gray 1841); "Campethera G. Gray, 1841, List Genera Birds, 2nd ed., p. 70. New name for Dendromus Swainson, 1837, preoccupied by Dendromus A. Smith, 1829 (Mammalia)." (JAJ 2021).
Var. Campetherus, Campothera.
Synon. Chrysopicos, Chrysoptilopicus, Cnipotheres, Dendromus, Ipagrus, Notopicus, Pardipicus, Stictocraugus, Stictopicus.
cailliautii
Frédéric Cailliaud (1787-1869) French naturalist, collector in Egypt and the Sudan 1815-1822 (Campethera).
SUBSPECIES
Green-backed Woodpecker (Plain-backed)
SCI Name: Campethera cailliautii permista
permista / permistus / permixta / permixtus
L. permixtus or permistus mixed, confused, disordered < permiscere to mix together.
Green-backed Woodpecker (Spot-backed)
SCI Name: Campethera cailliautii [cailliautii Group]
CAMPETHERA
(Picidae; Ϯ Little Green Woodpecker C. maculosa) Gr. καμπη kampē caterpillar; -θηρας -thēras hunter < θηραω thēraō to hunt < θηρ thēr, θηρος thēros beast, animal; "CAMPETHERA, G. R. Gray (1841). Dendromus a, Swains. Picus, Swains. C. brachyrhyncha, (Swains.) G. R. Gray. ... a Used in Mammalogy." (G. Gray 1841); "Campethera G. Gray, 1841, List Genera Birds, 2nd ed., p. 70. New name for Dendromus Swainson, 1837, preoccupied by Dendromus A. Smith, 1829 (Mammalia)." (JAJ 2021).
Var. Campetherus, Campothera.
Synon. Chrysopicos, Chrysoptilopicus, Cnipotheres, Dendromus, Ipagrus, Notopicus, Pardipicus, Stictocraugus, Stictopicus.
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)