Cuban Green Woodpecker / Xiphidiopicus percussus
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Cuban Green Woodpecker
SCI Name:
Protonym: Picus percussus Pl.Col. livr.66 pl.390
Taxonomy: Piciformes / Picidae / Xiphidiopicus
Taxonomy Code: cugwoo1
Type Locality: Cuba.
Author: Temminck
Publish Year: 1826
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
XIPHIDIOPICUS
(Picidae; Ϯ Cuban Green Woodpecker X. percussus) Gr. ξιφιδιον xiphidion dagger < dim. ξιφος xiphos sword; Late Gr. πικος pikos woodpecker < L. picus woodpecker; "35. XIPHIDIOPICUS, Bp. — 213. percussus, Temm." (Bonaparte 1854); "Xiphidiopicus Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, 2, 1854, p. 126. (separately paged reprint, Consp. Vol. Zygodact., p. 11.) Type, by monotypy Picus percussus Temminck." (Peters 1948, VI, 218).
Var. Xiphidiopipo (Gr. πιπω pipō spotted woodpecker).
Synon. Dolichopicos.
percussa / percussum / percussus
L. percussus slain, stabbed (i.e. blood-stained) < percutere to strike down < per by, through; quatere to shatter.
SUBSPECIES
Cuban Green Woodpecker (percussus)
SCI Name: Xiphidiopicus percussus percussus
percussa / percussum / percussus
L. percussus slain, stabbed (i.e. blood-stained) < percutere to strike down < per by, through; quatere to shatter.
Cuban Green Woodpecker (insulaepinorum)
SCI Name: Xiphidiopicus percussus insulaepinorum
insulaepinorum
Isle of Pines (= Isla de Pinos = Isla de la Juventud), Cuba.
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)
