Gray-crowned Woodpecker / Colaptes auricularis
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Gray-crowned Woodpecker
SCI Name:
Protonym: Chloronerpes auricularis Ibis p.381
Taxonomy: Piciformes / Picidae / Colaptes
Taxonomy Code: grcwoo1
Type Locality: Xautipa, Sierra Madre del Sur, Guerrero.
Author: Salvin & Godman
Publish Year: 1889
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
COLAPTES
(Picidae; Ϯ Yellow-shafted Flicker C. auratus) Gr. κολαπτης kolaptēs chiseller < κολαπτω kolaptō to chisel, to peck, to strike; "The former group, or the Linnean Pici, it may be again observed, include some species where the bill loses the straight and angulated form, and becomes curved and compressed. These birds, of which the Picus auratus of Linnæus is the representative §, exhibit in this particular an evident approximation to the true Creepers ... § This group forms the genus Colaptes of Mr. Swainson." (Vigors 1825); "Colaptes Vigors, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 14, pt. 3, 1826, p. 457, note. Type, by original designation, Cuculus auratus Linné." (Peters, 1948, VI, p. 100).
Synon. Chrysopicus, Chrysoptilus, Craugus, Geopicos, Malherbipicus, Nesoceleus, Pediopipo, Pituipicus, Soroplex, Theiopicus, Tridactylocolaptes.
auriculare / auricularis
Med. L. auricularis ear, eared < L. auricula ear < dim. auris ear.
● ex “Oricou” of Levaillant 1796, pl. 9 < French oreille ear; cou neck (syn. Torgos tracheliotus).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
