| Mulleripicus | |
|---|---|
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| A pair of ashy woodpeckers (Mulleripicus fulvus) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Picidae |
| Tribe: | Picini |
| Genus: | Mulleripicus Bonaparte, 1854 |
| Type species | |
| Picus pulverulentus[1] Temminck, 1826 | |
| Species | |
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Mulleripicus is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae. They are found in South and Southeast Asia. The genus forms part of the woodpecker subfamily Picinae and has a sister relationship to the genus Dryocopus whose species are widely distributed in Eurasia and the Americas.
Taxonomy
The genus Mulleripicus was erected by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte to accommodate the great slaty woodpecker (Mulleripicus pulverulentus).[2] The genus name honours the German naturalist Salomon Müller,[3] The genus belongs to the tribe Picini and is a member of a clade that contains the five genera: Colaptes, Piculus, Mulleripicus, Dryocopus and Celeus.[4]
The genus contains four species.[5]
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
_on_tree_trunk_(crop_1).jpg.webp) | Mulleripicus fulvus | Ashy woodpecker | Sulawesi and surrounding islands in Indonesia |
 | Mulleripicus funebris | Northern sooty woodpecker | Luzon, Marinduque, Catanduanes and the Polillo Islands in the Philippines |
| Mulleripicus fuliginosus | Southern sooty woodpecker | Mindanao, Leyte, and Samar | |
 | Mulleripicus pulverulentus | Great slaty woodpecker | Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam |
References
- ↑ "Picidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ↑ Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1854). "Quadro dei volucri zigodattili ossia passeri a piedi scansori". In de Luca, Serafino; Müller, D. (eds.). L'Ateneo Italiano; raccolta di documenti e memorie relative al progresso delle scienze fisiche (in Italian). Vol. 2. Parigi [Paris]: Victor Masson. pp. 116–129 [122].
- ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 261. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ↑ Shakya, S.B.; Fuchs, J.; Pons, J.M.; Sheldon, F.H. (2017). "Tapping the woodpecker tree for evolutionary insight". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 116: 182–191. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.09.005. PMID 28890006.
- ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "Woodpeckers". IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
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