Chloropicus
{{short description|Genus of birds}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Thripias namaquus -Hlane Royal National Park, Swaziland-8.jpg
| image_caption = Bearded woodpecker Chloropicus namaquus
| taxon = Chloropicus
| authority = Malherbe, 1845
| type_species = Picus (Chloropicus) pyrrhogaster{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=96 |title= Picidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-25}}
| type_species_authority = Malherbe, 1845
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 3, see text
}}
Chloropicus is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae that are native to Sub-Saharan Africa.
Taxonomy
The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Alfred Malherbe in 1845 with the fire-bellied woodpecker (Chloropicus pyrrhogaster) as the type species.{{ cite journal | last=Malherbe | first=Alfred | author-link=Alfred Malherbe | year=1845 | title=Description de dix espéces nouvelles du genre Picus, Linné | journal=Revue Zoologique par la Société Cuvierienne | volume=8 | page=399 | language=fr, la | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2327623 }} The word Chloropicus is from the Greek khlōros meaning green and pikos meaning woodpecker.{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url=https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 |page=[https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling/page/n103 103]}} Molecular genetic studies have shown that the genus Chloropicus is sister to the genus Dendropicos.{{Cite journal | last1=Shakya | first1=S.B. | last2=Fuchs | first2=J. | last3=Pons | first3=J.-M. | last4=Sheldon | first4=F.H. | date=2017 | title=Tapping the woodpecker tree for evolutionary insight | journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume=116 | pages=182–191 | doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2017.09.005 | pmid=28890006 | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319596154 | doi-access=free | bibcode=2017MolPE.116..182S }}{{Cite journal | last1=Fuchs | first1=J. | last2=Pons | first2=J.-M. | last3=Bowie | first3=R.C.K. | date=2017 | title=Biogeography and diversification dynamics of the African woodpeckers | journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume=108 | pages=88–100 | doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2017.01.007 | pmid=28089840 | doi-access=free | bibcode=2017MolPE.108...88F }} Species in this genus were previously sometimes assigned to Dendropicos.{{ cite journal | last1=Fuchs | first1=J. | last2=Pons | first2=J.M. | year=2015 | title=A new classification of the pied woodpeckers assemblage (Dendropicini, Picidae) based on a comprehensive multi-locus phylogeny | journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume=88 | pages=28–37 | doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2015.03.016 | pmid=25818851| bibcode=2015MolPE..88...28F }}{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | title=Woodpeckers | work= World Bird List Version 6.2 | url= http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/woodpeckers/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union| access-date = 5 May 2016 }}
The genus contains the three species:
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| Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 120px | Chloropicus namaquus | Bearded woodpecker | Angola, Botswana, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe |
| 120px | Chloropicus xantholophus | Yellow-crested woodpecker | Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Nigeria, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. |
| 120px | Chloropicus pyrrhogaster | Fire-bellied woodpecker | Benin, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo and western Cameroon |
References
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Category:Birds of Sub-Saharan Africa
Category:Taxa named by Alfred Malherbe
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