Dendropicos

Dendropicos is a genus of woodpeckers in the family Picidae. They are small woodpeckers that are native to the sub-Saharan woodlands and forests.

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Vinony's link graph records 175 inbound references to Dendropicos, and connects out to Picinae, trogon and Bucerotiformes.

It sits within the topics Bird genera, Birds of Sub-Saharan Africa and Dendropicos.

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Species

GENUS

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassAves
OrderPiciformes
FamilyPicidae

Observations recorded207,018

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Museum specimens

Specimen records: 172
With media: 73
Family: Picidae
Collections: RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, YPM
Recorded in: Dr Congo, Angola

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Instance of: taxon
Image: Male Cardinal Woodpecker (Dendropicos fuscescens).jpg

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Commons category: Dendropicos
taxon rank: genus
topic's main category: Category:Dendropicos
taxon name: Dendropicos
Commons gallery: Dendropicos

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Dendropicos is a genus of woodpeckers in the family Picidae. They are small woodpeckers that are native to the sub-Saharan woodlands and forests.

==Taxonomy== The genus Dendropicos was introduced by the French ornithologist, Alfred Malherbe in 1849. The type species was subsequently designated as one of the subspecies of the cardinal woodpecker. The word Dendropicos comes from the Greek dendron meaning tree and pikos for woodpecker. Molecular genetic studies have shown that the genus Dendropicos is sister to the genus Chloropicus.

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