Veniliornis is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae. They are native to the Neotropics.
Veniliornis | |
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A male yellow-eared woodpecker (Veniliornis maculifrons) in Ilha Grande, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Piciformes |
Family: | Picidae |
Tribe: | Melanerpini |
Genus: | Veniliornis Bonaparte, 1854 |
Type species | |
Picus sanguineus[1] Lichtenstein, 1793
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Species | |
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The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1854.[2] The word Veniliornis combines the name of the Roman deity Venilia with the Greek word ornis meaning "bird".[3] The type species was designated as the blood-colored woodpecker (Veniliornis sanguineus) by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855.[4][5]
The genus contains the following 14 species:[6]
Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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Scarlet-backed woodpecker | Veniliornis callonotus | Colombia, Ecuador and northern Peru | |
Yellow-vented woodpecker | Veniliornis dignus | Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela | |
Bar-bellied woodpecker | Veniliornis nigriceps | Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. | |
Little woodpecker | Veniliornis passerinus | South America east of the Andes | |
Dot-fronted woodpecker | Veniliornis frontalis | Argentina and Bolivia. | |
White-spotted woodpecker | Veniliornis spilogaster | Brazil, Uruguay, eastern Paraguay and northeastern Argentina. | |
Blood-colored woodpecker | Veniliornis sanguineus | Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana | |
Red-rumped woodpecker | Veniliornis kirkii | Costa Rica south and east to Ecuador, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago | |
Red-stained woodpecker | Veniliornis affinis | eastern Brazil and the Amazon Basin. | |
Chocó woodpecker | Veniliornis chocoensis | Colombia and Ecuador. | |
Golden-collared woodpecker | Veniliornis cassini | northern Brazil, the Guianas, Venezuela and far eastern Colombia. | |
Yellow-eared woodpecker | Veniliornis maculifrons | eastern Brazil. | |
Striped woodpecker | Veniliornis lignarius – formerly in Picoides[7][8] | southwestern South America. | |
Checkered woodpecker | Veniliornis mixtus – formerly in Picoides[7][8] | eastern South America. |