Orange-backed woodpecker
| Orange-backed woodpecker | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Picidae |
| Genus: | Reinwardtipicus Bonaparte, 1854 |
| Species: | R. validus
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| Binomial name | |
| Reinwardtipicus validus (Temminck, 1825)
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The orange-backed woodpecker (Reinwardtipicus validus) is a bird in the woodpecker family
monotypic in the genus Reinwardtipicus. It is a forest specialist that is found primarily in the canopy.[2]
Taxonomy
The orange-backed woodpecker was
binomial name Pic validus.[3] The woodpecker was previously the sole species placed in the genus Reinwardtipicus that was erected in 1854 by French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte to accommodate the orange-backed woodpecker.[4][5] The genus name Reinwardtipicus was chosen to honour the Dutch naturalist Caspar Reinwardt. His name is combined with picus, the Latin word for a woodpecker. The specific epithet validus is a Latin word meaning "strong" or "powerful".[6] The orange-backed woodpecker belongs to the tribe Campephilini in the subfamily Picinae. Molecular genetic studies have shown that the species is closely related to the woodpeckers in the genus Chrysocolaptes.[7]
Two subspecies are recognised:[5]
- R. v. xanthopygius (Finsch, 1905) – the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo
- R. v. validus (Temminck, 1825) – Java
References
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Chrysocolaptes validus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ISSN 0006-3207.
- ^ Temminck, Coenraad Jacob (1838) [1825]. Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon (in French). Vol. 4. Paris: F.G. Levrault. Plates 378 (male), 402 (female). The pages are not numbered. The five volumes were originally issued in 102 parts, 1820-1839
- ^ Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1854). "Quadro dei volucri zigodattili ossia passeri a piedi scansori". In de Luca, Serafino; Müller, D. (eds.). L'Ateneo Italiano; raccolta di documenti e memorie relative al progresso delle scienze fisiche (in Italian). Vol. 2. Parigi [Paris]: Victor Masson. pp. 116–129 [122].
- ^ Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "Woodpeckers". IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
- ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- PMID 28890006.
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