Chloropicus Poecilolaemus Bird

Chloropicus Poecilolaemus Bird

Chloropicus Poecilolaemus Bird

English Name:  Speckle-breasted Woodpecker
Latin Name:  Chloropicus poecilolaemus
Protonym:  Dendropicus poecilolaemus Orn.Monatsb. 1 p.30
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Picidae / Chloropicus
Taxonomy Code:  spbwoo2
Type Locality:  Sconga, west of Lake Albert.
Author:  Reichenow
Publish Year:  1893
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.

poecilolaemus
Gr. ποικιλος poikilos variegated, spotted; λαιμος laimos throat.