Pale-headed Woodpecker

SCI Name:  Gecinulus grantia
Protonym:  Picus (Chrysonotus) Grantia Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1839) (1839), Pt7 no.82 p.165
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Picidae / Gecinulus
Taxonomy Code:  pahwoo1
Type Locality:  Assam.
Author:  Horsfield
Publish Year:  1840
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

GECINULUS
(Picidae; Ϯ Pale-headed Woodpecker G. grantia) Dim. < genus Gecinus Boie 1831, woodpecker; "Subg. Gecinulus, nobis.  This is a third form of three-toed Woodpecker (in addition to Picoides, Lacep., of northern climates, and Tiga, Kaup, v. Chrysonotus, Sw., of south-eastern Asia and its islands), most nearly allied to Gecinus, from which it differs in the shortness and lateral compression of its beak, and the small size of the feet, which have besides no inner fourth toe. As a peculiar form of Woodpecker, it is very distinct, though represented only (so far as I am at present aware) by P. (Gec.) Grantia, *McClelland and Horsfield, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 165.   ...   *Quære, Grantii, or Granti?" (Blyth 1845); "Gecinulus Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 14, pt. 1, 1845, p. 192. Type, by monotypy, Picus grantia McClelland." (Peters, 1948, VI, p. 146).
Synon. Geciniscus, Spaniopicoides.

grantia
Etymology undiscovered; probably an eponym; "83. PICUS (Chrysonotus, Swainson) GRANTIA.  ...   This bird belongs to Mr. Swainson's subgenus Chrysonotus, Lard. Cab. Cycl. Birds, II. p. 309, of which Picus Tiga, Linn. Tr., XIII. 177, is given as the type." (McClelland 1840, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 7 (1839), 165); "Quære, Grantii, or Granti?" (Blyth 1845) (Gecinulus).

SUBSPECIES

Pale-headed Woodpecker (grantia)
SCI Name: Gecinulus grantia grantia
grantia
Etymology undiscovered; probably an eponym; "83. PICUS (Chrysonotus, Swainson) GRANTIA.  ...   This bird belongs to Mr. Swainson's subgenus Chrysonotus, Lard. Cab. Cycl. Birds, II. p. 309, of which Picus Tiga, Linn. Tr., XIII. 177, is given as the type." (McClelland 1840, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 7 (1839), 165); "Quære, Grantii, or Granti?" (Blyth 1845) (Gecinulus).

Pale-headed Woodpecker (indochinensis)
SCI Name: Gecinulus grantia indochinensis
indochina / indochinae / indochinense / indochinensis
Indochina.

Pale-headed Woodpecker (viridanus)
SCI Name: Gecinulus grantia viridanus
viridanum / viridanus
Mod. L. viridanus  green  < L. viridans, viridantis  green  < viridis  green  < virere  to be green.