Yellow-crowned woodpecker
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| Male yellow-crowned woodpecker in Mangaon | |
Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Picidae |
| Genus: | Leiopicus Bonaparte,1854 |
| Species: | L. mahrattensis
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| Leiopicus mahrattensis (Latham,1801)
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Theyellow-crowned woodpecker(Leiopicus mahrattensis) or Mahratta woodpecker is a species of small piedwoodpeckerfound in theIndian subcontinent.It is the only species placed in the genusLeiopicus.
Taxonomy
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The yellow-crowned woodpecker was originally described by the English ornithologistJohn Lathamin 1801 under thebinomial namePicus mahrattensis.[2]It is now the only species placed in thegenusLeiopicusthat was introduced by the French ornithologistCharles Lucien Bonapartein 1854.[3]The specific epithetmahrattensisis fromMarhatta,a historical region in the modern Indian state ofMaharashtra.The genus nameLeiopicuscombines theClassical Greekleiosmeaning "smooth" or "beardless" andpikosmeaning "woodpecker".[4]The yellow-crowned woodpecker is closely related to the woodpeckers in the genusDendrocoptes.[5]
Description
[edit]A medium-small (17.5 cm, 6.9 inches, 28-46 grams, 1–1.6 ounces), pale-headed, pied woodpecker. Upper-parts black, heavily spotted and barred white. Underparts dark, streaked dingy white with red belly patch. Irregular brown cheek and neck patches. Female has yellowish crown and nape. In male nape scarlet and fore-crown yellow.
References
[edit]- ^BirdLife International(2016)."Leiopicus mahrattensis".IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.2016:e.T22681092A92892393.Retrieved7 November2021.
- ^Latham, John(1801).Supplementum indicis ornithologici sive systematis ornithologiae(in Latin). London: Leigh & Sotheby. p. xxxi.
- ^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 [123].
- ^Jobling, James A. (2010).The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names.London: Christopher Helm. pp.221,238.ISBN978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^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.PMID28890006.
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