Dendroplex
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| name = Dendroplex
| image = Straight-billed Woodcreeper.jpg
| image_caption = Straight-billed woodcreeper (Dendroplex picus)
| taxon = Dendroplex
| authority = Swainson, 1827
| type_species = Oriolus picus
| type_species_authority = Gmelin, JF, 1788
| subdivision_ranks = Species
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Dendroplex is a genus of birds in the woodcreeper subfamily Dendrocolaptinae. It was long merged into Xiphorhynchus, but its distinctness has now been established.{{Cite journal | last=Aleixo | first=Alexandre | date=2002 | title=Molecular systematics and the role of the "Várzea"–"Terra-Firme" ecotone in the diversification of Xiphorhynchus woodcreepers (Aves: Dendrocolaptidae) | journal=The Auk | volume=119 | issue=3 | pages=621–640 | doi=10.1093/auk/119.3.621 | doi-access=free }}
Taxonomy
The genus Dendroplex was introduced in 1827 by the English naturalist William Swainson.{{ cite journal | last=Swainson | first=William | author-link=William Swainson | year=1827 | title=On several groups and forms in ornithology, not hitherto defined | journal=Zoological Journal | volume=3 | pages=158–175, 343–363 [354] | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27485880 }} The genus name combines the Ancient Greek dendron meaning "tree" with plēssō meaning "to strike".{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=133 | url=https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n133/mode/1up }} Swainson did not specify a type species but this was fixed in 2007 as the straight-billed woodcreeper which had first been described in 1788 by Johann Friedrich Gmelin with the binomial name Oriolus picus.{{Cite journal | last1=Aleixo | first1=A. | last2=Gregory | first2=S.M.S. | last3=Penhallurick | first3=J. | date=2007 | title=Fixation of the type species and revalidation of the genus Dendroplex Swainson, 1827 (Dendrocolaptidae) | journal=Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club | volume=127 | pages=242–246 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40877339}}{{ cite book | editor-last1=Dickinson | editor-first1=E.C. | editor1-link=Edward C. Dickinson | editor-last2=Christidis | editor-first2=L. | editor2-link=Leslie Christidis | year=2014 | title=The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World | volume=2: Passerines | edition=4th | location=Eastbourne, UK | publisher=Aves Press | isbn=978-0-9568611-2-2 | page=115 }}
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| Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 120px | Dendroplex picus | Straight-billed woodcreeper | Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. |
| 120px | Dendroplex kienerii | Zimmer's woodcreeper | Amazon river and tributaries |
References
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