Mountain Gray Woodpecker

SCI Name:  Chloropicus spodocephalus
Protonym:  Dendrobates spodocephalus Consp.Gen.Av. 1 p.125
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Picidae / Chloropicus
Taxonomy Code:  gyhwoo1
Type Locality:  West Africa = East Africa, i.e. Shoa, ex Rüppell, Vog. N.-O. Afr., p. 86.
Author:  Bonaparte
Publish Year:  1850
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

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.

spodocephala / spodocephalus
Gr. σποδος spodos  ashes; -κεφαλος -kephalos  -headed  < κεφαλη kephalē  head.

SUBSPECIES

Mountain Gray Woodpecker (rhodeogaster)
SCI Name: Chloropicus spodocephalus rhodeogaster
rhodeogaster
Gr. ῥοδεος rhodeos  of roses  < ῥοδον rhodon  rose; γαστηρ gastēr,  γαστρος gastros  belly.

Mountain Gray Woodpecker (spodocephalus)
SCI Name: Chloropicus spodocephalus spodocephalus
spodocephala / spodocephalus
Gr. σποδος spodos  ashes; -κεφαλος -kephalos  -headed  < κεφαλη kephalē  head.