Elliot's Woodpecker

SCI Name:  Chloropicus elliotii
Protonym:  Polipicus Elliotii Proc.Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia 15 p.197
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Picidae / Chloropicus
Taxonomy Code:  ellwoo1
Type Locality:  Muni River, Gaboon.
Author:  Cassin
Publish Year:  1863
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

Chloropicus
(Picidae; syn. Dendropicos † Fire-bellied Woodpecker D. pyrrhogaster) Gr. χλωρος khlōros  green; Late Gr. πικος pikos  woodpecker  < L. picus  woodpecker; "1. P. (Chloropicus) PYRRHOGASTER.   ...   2.       P. (Brachypternopicus) RUBROPYGIALIS.  ...  3. P. (Chloropicus) KIRKII.   ...   4. P. (Chloropicus) RUFOVIRIDIS.   ...   5. P. (Chloropicus) XANTHODERUS." (Malherbe 1845); "Chloropicus Malherbe, 1845, Revue Zoologique, VIII, p. 399.  For the benefit of The Key, type here fixed by subsequent designation, Picus (Chloropicus) pyrrhogaster Malherbe, 1845." (JAJ 2021).   
Var. Chloropicos.

elliotii
● Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915) US ornithologist, founding member of AOU (Dendropicos, Hydrornis, Trochalopteron (Björn Bergenholtz in litt.)).
● Sir Walter Elliot (1803-1887) Scottish civil servant in India, archaeologist, collector (syn. Pernis ptilorhynchus).

SUBSPECIES

Elliot's Woodpecker (Elliot's)
SCI Name: Chloropicus elliotii elliotii
elliotii
● Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915) US ornithologist, founding member of AOU (Dendropicos, Hydrornis, Trochalopteron (Björn Bergenholtz in litt.)).
● Sir Walter Elliot (1803-1887) Scottish civil servant in India, archaeologist, collector (syn. Pernis ptilorhynchus).

Elliot's Woodpecker (Johnston's)
SCI Name: Chloropicus elliotii johnstoni
johnstoni
● Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston (1858-1927) English explorer in tropical Africa 1882-1884, colonial administrator, Vice Consul Cameroon and Niger Delta 1885, Consul to Portuguese East Africa 1889, Commissioner for South Central Africa 1891-1896, Consul-Gen. to Tunisia 1897-1899, Special Commissioner for Uganda 1899-1901 (syn. Aplopelia larvata, Dendropicos, syn. Melaenornis fischeri, Nectarinia, subsp. Phylloscopus ruficapilla, syn. Pogonocichla stellata orientalis, subsp. Pternistis hildebrandti, Ruwenzorornis, syn. Turdus olivaceus baraka).
● Johnston River, northern Queensland, Australia (syn. Gerygone palpebrosa flavida, syn. Philemon citreogularis sordidus, syn. Xanthotis macleayanus).