Olive-backed Woodpecker / Dinopium rafflesii
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Olive-backed Woodpecker
SCI Name:
Protonym: Picus Rafflesii Mem.LifePub.Serv.SirT.S.Raffles[Raffles] p.669
Taxonomy: Piciformes / Picidae / Dinopium
Taxonomy Code: olbwoo2
Type Locality: No locality = Sumatra.
Author: Vigors
Publish Year: 1830
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
DINOPIUM
(Picidae; Ϯ Common Flame-back D. javanense) Gr. δεινος deinos mighty, huge; ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos appearance; "Description de 4 nouvelles espèces d'Oiseaux de l'Ile de Java, observés dans le museum de Mr. Peale à Philadelphie, Turnix javanica, Dinopium (Picoides) erythronotus, Hirundo longipennis et Sylvia cuneata." (Rafinesque 1814); "Dinopium Rafinesque, Principes Fondamentaux de Somiologie, 1814, p. 2 of cover. Type, by monotypy, Dinopium (Picoides) erythronotus Rafinesque, which is based on "le picoïde à dos rouge", Bull. des Sciences de Soc. Philom., Paris, 3, 1803, p. 146 = Picus javanensis Ljungh." (Peters, 1948, VI, p. 143).
Var. Dinopicus (Gr. πικος pikos woodpecker).
Synon. Brachypternopicus, Brachypternus, Brahmapicus, Chloropicoides, Chrysonotus, Gauropicoides, Mesospilus, Tiga.
rafflesi / rafflesia / rafflesii / rafflesius
Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles (1781-1826) English colonial administrator, Lt.-Gov. of Java 1811–1815, Benkoelen, Sumatra 1818–1824, founder of Singapore 1819, first President of Zoological Society of London (syn. Calyptomena viridis, Dinopium, syn. Eurylaimus ochromalus, syn. Hydrornis irena, subsp. Prinia flaviventris, Psilopogon, syn. Psilopogon haemacephalus, syn. Spatula cyanoptera).
SUBSPECIES
Olive-backed Woodpecker (rafflesii)
SCI Name: Dinopium rafflesii rafflesii
rafflesi / rafflesia / rafflesii / rafflesius
Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles (1781-1826) English colonial administrator, Lt.-Gov. of Java 1811–1815, Benkoelen, Sumatra 1818–1824, founder of Singapore 1819, first President of Zoological Society of London (syn. Calyptomena viridis, Dinopium, syn. Eurylaimus ochromalus, syn. Hydrornis irena, subsp. Prinia flaviventris, Psilopogon, syn. Psilopogon haemacephalus, syn. Spatula cyanoptera).
Olive-backed Woodpecker (dulitense)
SCI Name: Dinopium rafflesii dulitense
dulitense / dulitensis
Mt. Dulit, Sarawak, Borneo.
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)
