Red-billed Woodcreeper

SCI Name:  Hylexetastes perrotii
Protonym:  Dendrocolaptes Perrotii Rev.Zool. 7 p.80
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Furnariidae / Hylexetastes
Taxonomy Code:  rebwoo1
Type Locality:  Colombia, error = Cayenne.
Author:  Lafresnaye
Publish Year:  1844
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

HYLEXETASTES
(Furnariidae; Ϯ Red-billed Woodcreeper H. perrotii) Gr. ὑλη hulē  woodland, forest; εξεταστης exetastēs  examiner  < εξεταζω exetazō  to examine; "(2) HYLEXETASTES (ὑλη  silva et εξεταστης  investigator), for Dendrocolaptes perroti, Lafr., which is allied to Dendrexetastes, but differs in its much stronger and stouter bill." (P. Sclater 1889); "Hylexetastes Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1889, p. 34. Type, by original designation and monotypy, Dendrocolaptes perrotii Lafresnaye." (Peters, 1951, VII, p. 25).

perrotiana / perrotii / perrotti
Jean Perrot (1790-1858) French taxidermist at Natural History Mus., Paris (Hylexetastes, syn. Philortyx fasciatus).

SUBSPECIES

Red-billed Woodcreeper (Red-billed)
SCI Name: Hylexetastes perrotii perrotii
perrotiana / perrotii / perrotti
Jean Perrot (1790-1858) French taxidermist at Natural History Mus., Paris (Hylexetastes, syn. Philortyx fasciatus).

Red-billed Woodcreeper (Uniform)
SCI Name: Hylexetastes perrotii uniformis
uniformis
L. uniformis  simple, plain, uniform  < uni-  only-  < unus  one; formis  shaped, formed  < forma  likeness, type.
● ex “Uniform Sandpiper” of Latham 1785, and Pennant 1785 (unident.).

Red-billed Woodcreeper (Brigida's)
SCI Name: Hylexetastes perrotii brigidai
brigidai
Manoel Santa Brígida (fl. 2010) Brazilian zoologist, taxidermist, collector with Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (subsp. Hylexetastes perrotii).