Chloropicus Elachus Bird

Chloropicus Elachus Bird

Chloropicus Elachus Bird

English Name:  Little Gray Woodpecker
Latin Name:  Chloropicus elachus
Protonym:  Dendropicos elachus Proc.Biol.Soc.Wash. 32 p.8
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Picidae / Chloropicus
Taxonomy Code:  ligwoo3
Type Locality:  
Author:  Oberholser
Publish Year:  1919
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

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.

elachus
Gr. ελαχυς elakhus small, little.