Yellow-crowned Woodpecker / Leiopicus mahrattensis
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Yellow-crowned Woodpecker
SCI Name:
Protonym: Picus Mahrattensis Suppl.ind.orn. p.xxxi
Taxonomy: Piciformes / Picidae / Leiopicus
Taxonomy Code: yecwoo1
Type Locality: India =: the Mahratta country, ex Gen. Syn., suppl. 2, p. 142, no. 7.
Author: Latham
Publish Year: 1801
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
LEIOPICUS
(Picidae; Ϯ Yellow-crowned Woodpecker L. mahrattensis) Gr. λειος leios smooth, beardless; Late Gr. πικος pikos woodpecker < L. picus woodpecker; "g. Leiopicus, Bp. — 65. mahrattensis, Lath. — 66. brunneifrons, Vig." (Bonaparte 1854).
Var. Liopicus.
mahrattarum / mahrattensis
Mahratta Country, Deccan, India.
SUBSPECIES
Yellow-crowned Woodpecker (mahrattensis)
SCI Name: Leiopicus mahrattensis mahrattensis
mahrattarum / mahrattensis
Mahratta Country, Deccan, India.
Yellow-crowned Woodpecker (pallescens)
SCI Name: Leiopicus mahrattensis pallescens
pallescens
L. pallescens, pallescentis pale-coloured, yellowish < pallescere to turn pale < pallere to be pale.
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)
