Mombasa Woodpecker / Campethera mombassica
WBN 
Mombasa Woodpecker
SCI Name:
Protonym: Picus (Campothera) mombassicus J.Orn. 32 p.262
Taxonomy: Piciformes / Picidae / Campethera
Taxonomy Code: momwoo1
Type Locality: Mombasa.
Author: Fischer & Reichenow
Publish Year: 1884
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
CAMPETHERA
(Picidae; Ϯ Little Green Woodpecker C. maculosa) Gr. καμπη kampē caterpillar; -θηρας -thēras hunter < θηραω thēraō to hunt < θηρ thēr, θηρος thēros beast, animal; "CAMPETHERA, G. R. Gray (1841). Dendromus a, Swains. Picus, Swains. C. brachyrhyncha, (Swains.) G. R. Gray. ... a Used in Mammalogy." (G. Gray 1841); "Campethera G. Gray, 1841, List Genera Birds, 2nd ed., p. 70. New name for Dendromus Swainson, 1837, preoccupied by Dendromus A. Smith, 1829 (Mammalia)." (JAJ 2021).
Var. Campetherus, Campothera.
Synon. Chrysopicos, Chrysoptilopicus, Cnipotheres, Dendromus, Ipagrus, Notopicus, Pardipicus, Stictocraugus, Stictopicus.
mombasae / mombassica / mombassicus
Mombassa, British East Africa (= Mombasa, Kenya).
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)
