Meiglyptes Tukki Bird

English Name:  Buff-necked Woodpecker
Latin Name:  Meiglyptes tukki
Protonym:  Picus tukki Rev.Zool. 2 p.167
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Picidae / Meiglyptes
Taxonomy Code:  bunwoo1
Type Locality:  Sumatra.
Author:  Lesson
Publish Year:  1839
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

MEIGLYPTES
(Picidae; Ϯ White-rumped Woodpecker M. tristis) Gr. μειων meiōn  smaller, lesser  < comp. μικρος mikros  small; γλυπτης gluptēs  carver  < γλυφω gluphō  to carve; "Meiglyptes, Sw.  Bill thick and broad at the base, as in Melanerpes.  Culmen considerably arched; the sides much rounded, and somewhat cylindrical.  Lateral ridge wanting.  Wings long.  Versatile and anterior toes equal.  Tarsus slightly shorter.   India.   Fissirostral.    P. poicilophus. Pl. Col. 197. f. 1." (Swainson 1837); "Meiglyptes Swainson, Classif. Bds., 2, 1837, p. 309. Type, by monotypy, Picus poicilophus Temminck = Picus tristis Horsfield." (Peters 1948, VI, 147).
Var. Meiglytes, Meigleptes, Meiglyptus, Miglyptes.
Synon. Hemicircoides, Stugnopicus.

tukki
Sumatran names Tukki or Tukik for a woodpecker (Meiglyptes).

SUBSPECIES

Buff-necked Woodpecker (tukki)
Latin Name: Meiglyptes tukki tukki
tukki
Sumatran names Tukki or Tukik for a woodpecker (Meiglyptes).

Buff-necked Woodpecker (percnerpes)
Latin Name: Meiglyptes tukki percnerpes
percnerpes
Gr. περκνος perknos  dark-coloured, dusky; ἑρπης herpēs  creeping thing, creeper  < ἑρπω herpō  to move slowly.

Buff-necked Woodpecker (batu)
Latin Name: Meiglyptes tukki batu
batu / batuense / batuensis
Batu Is., Sumatra, Indonesia.

Buff-necked Woodpecker (pulonis)
Latin Name: Meiglyptes tukki pulonis
pulonis
Malay pulo island.

Buff-necked Woodpecker (infuscatus)
Latin Name: Meiglyptes tukki infuscatus
infuscata / infuscatus
L. infuscatus  dusky  < infuscare  to make dark  < infuscus  dusky, blackish.
● ex “Curucáu Afeytado” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 365 (Phimosus).
● ex “Perroquet à franges souci” of Levaillant 1801-1805 (syn. Poicephalus robustus).