Campephilus

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Campephilus
Pale-billed woodpecker (Campephilus guatemalensis)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Tribe: Campephilini
Genus: Campephilus
G.R. Gray, 1840
Type species
Picus principalis[1]
Linnaeus, 1758
Species

see text

Campephilus is a

Picidae.[2]

Taxonomy

The genus Campephilus was introduced by English zoologist

sister to a clade containing woodpeckers from Southeast Asia in the genera Chrysocolaptes, Blythipicus, and Reinwardtipicus.[5]

Species

The genus contains 12 species:[6]

Image Common Name Scientific name Distribution
Powerful woodpecker Campephilus pollens Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela
Splendid woodpecker Campephilus splendens Panama, western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador
Crimson-bellied woodpecker Campephilus haematogaster Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
Red-necked woodpecker Campephilus rubricollis Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
Robust woodpecker Campephilus robustus Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay.
Crimson-crested woodpecker Campephilus melanoleucos Panama south to northern border regions of Argentina, and on Trinidad.
Guayaquil woodpecker Campephilus gayaquilensis southern Colombia, Ecuador and northern Peru.
Pale-billed woodpecker Campephilus guatemalensis northern Mexico to western Panama.
Cream-backed woodpecker Campephilus leucopogon Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and far northwestern Uruguay.
Magellanic woodpecker Campephilus magellanicus southern Chile and southwestern Argentina
Ivory-billed woodpecker Campephilus principalis – possibly
extinct
(1987)		 Southern United States and Cuba.
Imperial woodpecker Campephilus imperialis – probably
extinct
(1956)		 Mexico.

A fossil species, C. dalquesti, was described from bones found in Late Pleistocene deposits of Scurry County, Texas.

References

  1. ^ "Picidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.02.021
  3. ^ Gray, George Robert (1840). A List of the Genera of Birds : with an Indication of the Typical Species of Each Genus. London: R. and J.E. Taylor. p. 54.
  4. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4
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  5. PMID 28890006
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  6. Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2023). "Woodpeckers"
    . IOC World Bird List Version 13.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 26 July 2023.

External links
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