Dendroplex | |
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Straight-billed woodcreeper (Dendroplex picus) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Furnariidae |
Subfamily: | Dendrocolaptinae |
Genus: |
Dendroplex Swainson, 1827 |
Type species | |
Oriolus picus
Gmelin, JF, 1788
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Species | |
Dendroplex is a genus of birds in the woodcreeper subfamily Dendrocolaptinae. It was long merged into Xiphorhynchus, but its distinctness has now been established. [1]
The genus Dendroplex was introduced in 1827 by the English naturalist William John Swainson. [2] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek dendron meaning "tree" with plēssō meaning "to strike". [3] Swainson did not specify a type species but this was fixed in 2007 as the straight-billed woodcreeper which had first been described in 1788 by Johann Friedrich Gmelin with the binomial name Oriolus picus. [4] [5]
The genus contains two species: [6]
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Dendroplex picus | Straight-billed woodcreeper | Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. | |
Dendroplex kienerii | Zimmer's woodcreeper | Amazon river and tributaries |