Campethera Scriptoricauda Bird

Reichenow\'s Woodpecker / Campethera scriptoricauda

Campethera Scriptoricauda Bird

English Name:  Reichenow's Woodpecker
Latin Name:  Campethera scriptoricauda
Protonym:  Dendromus scriptoricauda Orn.Monatsb. 4 p.131
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Picidae / Campethera
Taxonomy Code:  reiwoo1
Type Locality:  No locality, the type in the Berlin Museum is from Bumi, Tanganyika, Territory.
Author:  Reichenow
Publish Year:  1896
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CAMPETHERA
(Picidae; Ϯ Little Green Woodpecker C. maculosa) Gr. καμπη kampē  caterpillar; -θηρας -thēras  hunter  < θηραω thēraō  to hunt  < θηρ thēr, θηρος thēros  beast, animal; "CAMPETHERA, G. R. Gray (1841).  Dendromus a, Swains.  Picus, Swains.  C. brachyrhyncha, (Swains.) G. R. Gray.   ...   a Used in Mammalogy." (G. Gray 1841); "Campethera G. Gray, 1841, List Genera Birds, 2nd ed., p. 70.  New name for Dendromus Swainson, 1837, preoccupied by Dendromus A. Smith, 1829 (Mammalia)." (JAJ 2021).
Var. Campetherus, Campothera.
Synon. Chrysopicos, Chrysoptilopicus, Cnipotheres, Dendromus, Ipagrus, Notopicus, Pardipicus, Stictocraugus, Stictopicus.

scriptoricauda
L. scriptorius  writing  < scriptor, scriptoris  scribe  < scribere  to write; cauda  tail.