Black-cheeked Woodpecker / Melanerpes pucherani
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Black-cheeked Woodpecker
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Protonym: Zebrapicus Pucherani Rev.Mag.Zool. (2), 1 p.542
Taxonomy: Piciformes / Picidae / Melanerpes
Taxonomy Code: blcwoo1
Type Locality: Tobago, error = Colombia by designation of Hellmayr, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1911, p. 1188.
Author: Malherbe
Publish Year: 1849
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MELANERPES
(Picidae; Ϯ Red-headed Woodpecker M. erythrocephalus) Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos black; ἑρπης herpēs creeper < ἑρπω herpō to crawl; "1. MELANERPES ERYTHROCEPHALUS. (Sw.) Red-headed Woodpecker. GENUS, Melanerpes*, SWAINS. Sub-genus, (Typical form) SWAINS. ... This Woodpecker, so well known in the United States for the havoc it commits in the orchards, ranges in summer from the northern shores of Lake Huron to the Gulf of Mexico. ... *Th. μελας, niger, et ερπο, repo" (Swainson 1832); "Melanerpes Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., 2, 1831 (1832), p. 316. Type, by monotypy, Picus erythrocephalus Linné." (Peters 1948, VI, 157).
Var. Melanoherpes, Malanerpes.
Synon. Asyndesmus, Balanosphyra, Cactocraugus, Centurus, Chryserpes, Colombpicus, Leuconerpes, Leucopicus, Linneopicus, Melampicos, Meropicus, Phymatoblepharus, Trichopicus, Trichopipo, Tripsurus, Zebrapicus.
pucherani
Jacques Pucheran (1817-1894) French zoologist, explorer (subsp. Chlorostilbon lucidus, syn. Erythrura cyaneovirens, subsp. Geoffroyus geoffroyi, Guttera, Melanerpes, subsp. Rupornis magnirostris) (see pucheranii).
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)
