Stierling’s Woodpecker / Chloropicus stierlingi
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Stierling's Woodpecker
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Protonym: Dendropicos stierlingi Orn.Monatsb. 9 p.166
Taxonomy: Piciformes / Picidae / Chloropicus
Taxonomy Code: stiwoo1
Type Locality: Songea, Tanganyika Territory.
Author: Reichenow
Publish Year: 1901
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
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.
stierlingi
Dr J. Stierling (fl. 1901) German Army, senior staff physician in German East Africa 1887-1901, naturalist, collector (Mark Brown in litt.) (Calamonastes, syn. Cinnyris venustus falkensteini, Dendropicos, subsp. Psophocichla litsitsirupa, subsp. Sylvia abyssinica, subsp. Zosterops senegalensis).
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)
