Mulleripicus Explained

Mulleripicus is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae. They are found in South and Southeast Asia. The genus forms part of the woodpecker subfamily Picinae and has a sister relationship to the genus Dryocopus whose species are widely distributed in Eurasia and the Americas.

Taxonomy

The genus Mulleripicus was erected by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte to accommodate the great slaty woodpecker (Mulleripicus pulverulentus).[1] The genus name honours the German naturalist Salomon Müller,[2] The genus belongs to the tribe Picini and is a member of a clade that contains the five genera: Colaptes, Piculus, Mulleripicus, Dryocopus and Celeus.[3]

The genus contains four species.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Bonaparte, Charles Lucien . Charles Lucien Bonaparte . 1854 . Quadro dei volucri zigodattili ossia passeri a piedi scansori . it . de Luca . Serafino . Müller . D. . L'Ateneo Italiano; raccolta di documenti e memorie relative al progresso delle scienze fisiche . 2 . Parigi [Paris] . Victor Masson . 116–129 [122] . https://books.google.com/books?id=BR1pAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA122 .
  2. Book: Jobling, James A. . 2010. The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . limited . Christopher Helm . London . 978-1-4081-2501-4 . 261 .
  3. Shakya . S.B. . Fuchs . J. . Pons . J.M. . Sheldon . F.H. . 2017 . Tapping the woodpecker tree for evolutionary insight . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 116 . 182–191 . 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.09.005 . 28890006 . free . 2017MolPE.116..182S .
  4. Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . Rasmussen . Pamela . Pamela Rasmussen . 2020 . Woodpeckers . IOC World Bird List Version 10.1 . International Ornithologists' Union . 17 May 2020 .

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