Lepidocolaptes
Appearance
Lepidocolaptes | |
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Spot-crowned woodcreeper (Lepidocolaptes affinis) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Furnariidae |
Subfamily: | Dendrocolaptinae |
Genus: | Lepidocolaptes Reichenbach, 1853 |
Type species | |
Dendrocolaptes squamatus Scaled woodcreeper Lichtenstein, 1822
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Species | |
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Lepidocolaptes is a genus of birds in the ovenbird family Furnariidae. These are relatively small woodcreepers (subfamily Dendrocolaptinae) with fairly long, thin and slightly decurved bills.
Taxonomy
[edit]The genus Lepidocolaptes was introduced in 1853 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach.[1] The name combines the Ancient Greek lepis meaning "scale" with kolaptēs meaning "pecker".[2] The type species was designated as the scaled woodcreeper by George Robert Gray in 1855.[3][4]
Species
[edit]The genus contains 11 species:[5]
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Lepidocolaptes leucogaster | White-striped woodcreeper | Mexico. | |
Lepidocolaptes souleyetii | Streak-headed woodcreeper | southern Mexico to northwestern Peru, northern Brazil and Guyana, and also on Trinidad. | |
Lepidocolaptes angustirostris | Narrow-billed woodcreeper | Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Suriname, and Uruguay. | |
Lepidocolaptes affinis | Spot-crowned woodcreeper | central Mexico in the east, the Sierra Madre Orientals, to northern Panama. | |
Lepidocolaptes lacrymiger | Montane woodcreeper | Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. | |
Lepidocolaptes squamatus | Scaled woodcreeper | Brazil. | |
Lepidocolaptes falcinellus | Scalloped woodcreeper | southeastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay and far northeastern Argentina. | |
Lepidocolaptes albolineatus | Guianan woodcreeper | Brazil, French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, and eastern Venezuela. | |
Lepidocolaptes duidae | Duida woodcreeper | Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. | |
Lepidocolaptes fatimalimae | Inambari woodcreeper | southwestern Amazonia | |
Lepidocolaptes fuscicapillus | Dusky-capped woodcreeper (formerly named Rondonia woodcreeper) | southeastern Amazonia |
The lesser woodcreeper was formerly included in this genus, but is now in Xiphorhynchus.
References
[edit]- ^ Reichenbach, Ludwig (1853). "Icones ad synopsin avium No. 10 Scansoriae A". Handbuch der speciellen Ornithologie (in German). Vol. 6. Dresden und Leipzig: Expedition Vollständigsten Naturgeschichte. pp. 145–218 [183–184].
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 221. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 29.
- ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1951). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 7. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 47.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2021). "Ovenbirds, woodcreepers". IOC World Bird List Version 11.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 29 June 2021.