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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.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPiciformes
- FamilyPicidae
Observations recorded76,249
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 34
- With media
- 10
- Family
- Picidae
- Collections
- MZFC-FC-UNAM, CUMV, CLO, CM, LSUMZ, FMNH
- Recorded in
- Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, VéNéZuela
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Picinae
- Image
- Flickr - Rainbirder - Rufous-winged Woodpecker (Piculus simplex) male.jpg
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- Commons category
- Piculus
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Piculus
- taxon name
- Piculus
- Commons gallery
- Piculus
- taxon common name
- Pica-paus
- taxon range
- Brazil
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Encyclopedic overview
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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".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Piculus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.