Mulleripicus is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae. They are found in South and Southeast Asia. The genus forms part of the woodpecker subfamily Picinae and has a sister relationship to the genus Dryocopus whose species are widely distributed in Eurasia and the Americas.
Mulleripicus | |
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A pair of ashy woodpeckers (Mulleripicus fulvus) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Piciformes |
Family: | Picidae |
Tribe: | Picini |
Genus: | Mulleripicus Bonaparte, 1854 |
Type species | |
Picus pulverulentus[1] Temminck, 1826
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Species | |
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The genus Mulleripicus was erected by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte to accommodate the great slaty woodpecker (Mulleripicus pulverulentus).[2] The genus name honours the German naturalist Salomon Müller,[3] The genus belongs to the tribe Picini and is a member of a clade that contains the five genera: Colaptes, Piculus, Mulleripicus, Dryocopus and Celeus.[4]
The genus contains four species.[5]
Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
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Mulleripicus fulvus | Ashy woodpecker | Sulawesi and surrounding islands in Indonesia | |
Mulleripicus funebris | Northern sooty woodpecker | Luzon, Marinduque, Catanduanes and the Polillo Islands in the Philippines | |
Mulleripicus fuliginosus | Southern sooty woodpecker | Mindanao, Leyte, and Samar | |
Mulleripicus pulverulentus | Great slaty woodpecker | Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam |