Ivory-billed Woodpecker

SCI Name:  Campephilus principalis
Protonym:  Picus principalis Syst.Nat.ed.10 p.113
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Picidae / Campephilus
Taxonomy Code:  ivbwoo
Type Locality:  North America = South Carolina, ex Catesby.
Author:  Linnaeus
Publish Year:  1758
IUCN Status:  Critically Endangered

DEFINITIONS

CAMPEPHILUS
(Picidae; Ϯ Ivory-billed Woodpecker C. principalis) Gr. καμπη kampē  caterpillar; φιλος philos  lover; "CAMPEPHILUS, n.  Picus, L. Sw.  Dendrocopus, Boie.   C. principalis, (L.) n.,  Pl. enl. 690." (G. Gray 1840); "Campephilus G. R. Gray, 1840, List Genera Birds, p. 54.  Type, by original designation, Picus principalis Linnaeus." (AOU Checklist, 7th ed., 1998, p. 346).
Var. Campiphilus, Campophilus.
Synon. Cniparchus, Dendrocopus, Ipocrantor, Megalopipo, Megapicos, Phloeoceastes, Scapaneus.

principalis
L. principalis  first, of a prince, chief  < princeps, principis  leader, first  < primus  foremost  < super. prior, prius  first; capere  to take.
● TL. Prince's I. (= Príncipe, São Tomé & Príncipe, Gulf of Guinea) (subsp. Aplopelia larvata).
● "54. PICUS.  ...  principalis.  2. P. niger, crista coccinea, linea utrinque collari remibusque secundariis albis.  Picus maximus, rostro albo. Catesb. car. I. p. 16. t. 16.  Habitat in America septentrionalis." (Linnaeus 1758) (‡Campephilus).
● Albert Edward Prince of Wales (1841-1910) later Edward VII (reigned 1901-1910) (subsp. Phasianus colchicus).
● ex “Long-tailed Sparrow” of Edwards 1760 (syn. Vidua macroura).

SUBSPECIES

Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Northern)
SCI Name: Campephilus principalis principalis
principalis
L. principalis  first, of a prince, chief  < princeps, principis  leader, first  < primus  foremost  < super. prior, prius  first; capere  to take.
● TL. Prince's I. (= Príncipe, São Tomé & Príncipe, Gulf of Guinea) (subsp. Aplopelia larvata).
● "54. PICUS.  ...  principalis.  2. P. niger, crista coccinea, linea utrinque collari remibusque secundariis albis.  Picus maximus, rostro albo. Catesb. car. I. p. 16. t. 16.  Habitat in America septentrionalis." (Linnaeus 1758) (‡Campephilus).
● Albert Edward Prince of Wales (1841-1910) later Edward VII (reigned 1901-1910) (subsp. Phasianus colchicus).
● ex “Long-tailed Sparrow” of Edwards 1760 (syn. Vidua macroura).

Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Cuban)
SCI Name: Campephilus principalis bairdii
bairdi / bairdii
● Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823-1887) US ornithologist, collector, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (Acanthidops, syn. Buteo swainsoni, Calidris, syn. Calidris melanotos, ‡Campephilus, syn. Coccyzus americanus, syn. Coccyzus euleri, syn. Coereba flaveola bahamensis, syn. Dryobates pubescens, syn. Dryobates scalaris, subsp. Empidonax affinis, Geothlypis, ‡subsp. Icterus leucopteryx, Junco, subsp. Melanerpes formicivorus, syn. Myioborus melanocephalus ruficoronatus, Myiodynastes, Oreomystis, Passerculus, syn. Phalacrocorax pelagicus resplendens, syn. Polioptila albiloris, Prinia, subsp. Sialia mexicana, syn. Sterna paradisaea, syn. Thryomanes bewickii mexicanus, Trogon, Vireo).
● Dr Robert F. Baird (fl. 1996) Australian palaeontologist (‡Centropus).