Dendroplex
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| Dendroplex | |
|---|---|
| Straight-billed woodcreeper (Dendroplex picus) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Furnariidae |
| Subfamily: | Dendrocolaptinae |
| Genus: | Dendroplex Swainson, 1827 |
| Type species | |
| Oriolus picus Gmelin, JF, 1788
| |
| Species | |
Dendroplex is a genus of birds in the woodcreeper subfamily Dendrocolaptinae. It was long merged into Xiphorhynchus, but its distinctness has now been established.[1]
Taxonomy
[edit | edit source]The genus Dendroplex was introduced in 1827 by the English naturalist William Swainson.[2] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek dendron meaning "tree" with plēssō meaning "to strike".[3] 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.[4][5]
The genus contains two species:[6]
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dendroplex picus | Straight-billed woodcreeper | Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. | |
| Dendroplex kienerii | Zimmer's woodcreeper | Amazon river and tributaries |
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