Veniliornis Explained
Veniliornis is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae. They are native to the Neotropics.
Taxonomy
The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1854.[1] The word Veniliornis combines the name of the Roman deity Venilia with the Greek word ornis meaning "bird".[2] The type species was designated as the blood-colored woodpecker (Veniliornis sanguineus) by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855.[3] [4]
The genus contains the following 14 species:[5]
| Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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| | Veniliornis callonotus | Colombia, Ecuador and northern Peru |
| | Veniliornis dignus | Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela |
| | Veniliornis nigriceps | Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. |
| | Veniliornis passerinus | South America east of the Andes |
| | Veniliornis frontalis | Argentina and Bolivia. |
| | Veniliornis spilogaster | Brazil, Uruguay, eastern Paraguay and northeastern Argentina. |
| | Veniliornis sanguineus | Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana |
| | Veniliornis kirkii | Costa Rica south and east to Ecuador, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago |
| | Veniliornis affinis | eastern Brazil and the Amazon Basin. |
| | Veniliornis chocoensis | Colombia and Ecuador. |
| | Veniliornis cassini | northern Brazil, the Guianas, Venezuela and far eastern Colombia. |
| | Veniliornis maculifrons | eastern Brazil. |
| | Veniliornis lignarius - formerly in Picoides[6] [7] | southwestern South America. |
| | Veniliornis mixtus - formerly in Picoides | eastern South America. |
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Notes and References
- 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 [125] . https://books.google.com/books?id=BR1pAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA125 .
- Book: Jobling, James A. . 2010. The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . limited . Christopher Helm . London . 978-1-4081-2501-4 . 399–400.
- Book: Gray, George Robert . George Robert Gray . 1855 . Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum . London . British Museum . 92 .
- Book: Dickinson . E.C. . Edward C. Dickinson . Remsen . J.V. Jr. . James Van Remsen, Jr. . 2013 . The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World . 1: Non-passerines . 4th . Eastbourne, UK . Aves Press . 978-0-9568611-0-8 . 318 .
- Web site: Gill . Frank . Donsker . David . Woodpeckers . World Bird List Version 6.2 . International Ornithologists' Union. 5 May 2016 .
- Web site: Donegan . Thomas . January 2007 . Proposal (#262) South American Classification Committee: Transfer Picoides mixtus and P. lignarius to Veniliornis . American Ornithologists' Union . 7 May 2016.
- Moore . W.S. . Weibel . A.C. . Agius . A. . 2006 . Mitochondrial DNA phylogeny of the woodpecker genus Veniliornis (Picidae, Picinae) and related genera implies convergent evolution of plumage patterns . Biological Journal of the Linnean Society . 87 . 4 . 611–624 . 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00586.x . free .
