Golden-cheeked Woodpecker

SCI Name:  Melanerpes chrysogenys
Protonym:  Picus chrysogenys Zool.Beechey'sVoy. p.24
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Picidae / Melanerpes
Taxonomy Code:  gocwoo1
Type Locality:  No locality, but either Mazatlan Sinaloa or San Bias or Tepic, Nayarit.
Author:  Vigors
Publish Year:  1839
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.

chrysogenys
Gr. χρυσος khrusos  gold; γενυς genus, γενυος genuos  cheek, chin, jaw.

SUBSPECIES

Golden-cheeked Woodpecker (chrysogenys)
SCI Name: Melanerpes chrysogenys chrysogenys
chrysogenys
Gr. χρυσος khrusos  gold; γενυς genus, γενυος genuos  cheek, chin, jaw.

Golden-cheeked Woodpecker (flavinuchus)
SCI Name: Melanerpes chrysogenys flavinuchus
flavinucha / flavinuchus
L. flavus  yellow, golden-yellow; Med. L. nuchus  nape  < Arabic nukhā'  spinal marrow.