Beautiful Woodpecker Melanerpes pulcher Scientific name definitions
- LC Least Concern
- Names (18)
- Monotypic
Josep del Hoyo, Nigel Collar, and David Christie
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated January 27, 2015
Text last updated January 27, 2015
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Species names in all available languages
| Language | Common name |
|---|---|
| Catalan | picot del Magdalena |
| Czech | datel magdalenský |
| Dutch | Prachtspecht |
| English | Beautiful Woodpecker |
| English (United States) | Beautiful Woodpecker |
| French | Pic splendide |
| French (France) | Pic splendide |
| German | Schmuckspecht |
| Japanese | ウツクシミヤビゲラ |
| Norwegian | praktspett |
| Polish | dzięciur żółtogłowy |
| Russian | Красивый дятел |
| Slovak | tesárik kolumbijský |
| Spanish | Carpintero Lindo |
| Spanish (Spain) | Carpintero lindo |
| Swedish | colombiaspett |
| Turkish | Güzel Ağaçkakan |
| Ukrainian | Гіла колумбійська |
Melanerpes pulcher Sclater, 1870
PROTONYM:
Melanerpes pulcher
Sclater, 1870. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1870, Part 2, p. 330.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Near Bogota, Colombia.
SOURCE:
Avibase, 2023
Definitions
- MELANERPES
- pulcher
The Key to Scientific Names
Legend Overview
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, misspellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
Originally Appeared in
- Year-round
- Migration
- Breeding
- Non-Breeding
Distribution of the Beautiful Woodpecker
