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Genus of birds From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mulleripicus is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae. They are found in South and Southeast Asia. The genus forms part of the woodpecker subfamily Picinae and has a sister relationship to the genus Dryocopus whose species are widely distributed in Eurasia and the Americas.
Mulleripicus | |
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A pair of ashy woodpeckers (Mulleripicus fulvus) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Piciformes |
Family: | Picidae |
Tribe: | Picini |
Genus: | Mulleripicus Bonaparte, 1854 |
Type species | |
Picus pulverulentus[1] Temminck, 1826 | |
Species | |
see text |
The genus Mulleripicus was erected by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte to accommodate the great slaty woodpecker (Mulleripicus pulverulentus).[2] The genus name honours the German naturalist Salomon Müller,[3] The genus belongs to the tribe Picini and is a member of a clade that contains the five genera: Colaptes, Piculus, Mulleripicus, Dryocopus and Celeus.[4]
The genus contains four species.[5]
Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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Ashy woodpecker | Mulleripicus fulvus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) |
Sulawesi and surrounding islands in Indonesia | Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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Northern sooty woodpecker | Mulleripicus funebris (Valenciennes, 1826) |
Luzon, Marinduque, Catanduanes and the Polillo Islands in the Philippines | Size: Habitat: Diet: |
NT
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Southern sooty woodpecker
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Mulleripicus fuliginosus Tweeddale, 1877 |
Mindanao, Leyte, and Samar | Size: Habitat: Diet: |
VU
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Great slaty woodpecker | Mulleripicus pulverulentus (, ) |
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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