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Piculus
Sign in to savePiculus is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae that are found in Central and South America.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPiciformes
- FamilyPicidae
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- Picinae
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Piculus is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae that are found in Central and South America.
==Taxonomy== The genus was introduced by the German naturalist Johann Baptist von Spix in 1824. The type species was subsequently designated as the golden-green woodpecker (Piculus chrysochloros) by the American ornithologist Harry C. Oberholser in 1923. The generic name is a diminutive of the Latin word Picus meaning "woodpecker".