Golden-naped Woodpecker / Melanerpes chrysauchen
WBN 
Golden-naped Woodpecker
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Protonym: Melanerpes chrysauchen Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt2 p.213
Taxonomy: Piciformes / Picidae / Melanerpes
Taxonomy Code: gonwoo1
Type Locality: Bogaba [Chiriqui], Panama.
Author: Salvin
Publish Year: 1870
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.
chrysauchen / chrysauchenia
Gr. χρυσος khrusos gold; αυχην aukhēn, αυχενος aukhenos neck.
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)
