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Meiglyptes
''Meiglyptes'' is a genus of Southeast Asian birds in the family woodpecker family Picidae. The genus was introduced by the English naturalist William John Swainson in 1837 with the white-rumped woodpecker (''Meiglyptes tristis'') as the type species. The name combines the Ancient Greek ''meiōn'' meaning "smaller" or "lesser" with ''gluptēs'' meaning "carver". The genus belongs to the tribe Picini within the woodpecker subfamily Picinae. The genus is sister to the rufous woodpecker in its own monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispec ... genus '' Micropternus''. The genus contains 3 species. References Bird genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{woodpecker-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meiglyptes
''Meiglyptes'' is a genus of Southeast Asian birds in the family woodpecker family Picidae. The genus was introduced by the English naturalist William John Swainson in 1837 with the white-rumped woodpecker (''Meiglyptes tristis'') as the type species. The name combines the Ancient Greek ''meiōn'' meaning "smaller" or "lesser" with ''gluptēs'' meaning "carver". The genus belongs to the tribe Picini within the woodpecker subfamily Picinae. The genus is sister to the rufous woodpecker in its own monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispec ... genus '' Micropternus''. The genus contains 3 species. References Bird genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{woodpecker-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buff-rumped Woodpecker
The buff-rumped woodpecker (''Meiglyptes tristis'') is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It is found in southern Myanmar, Thailand, Malaya, Java, Sumatra and Borneo. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. The buff-rumped woodpecker was described by the American naturalist Thomas Horsfield in 1821 under the binomial name ''Picus tristis'' from a specimen collected in Java. The specific epithet ''tristis'' is Latin for "sad" or "gloomy". The species is now placed in the genus ''Meiglyptes'' that was introduced by the English naturalist William John Swainson in 1837. Two subspecies are recognised: * ''M. t. grammithorax'' (Malherbe, 1862) – Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo and nearby islands * ''M. t. tristis'' (Horsfield, 1821) – Java Some authorities treat the two subspecies as separate species with ''M. grammithorax'' as the buff-rumped woodpecker and ''M. tristis'' as the white-rumped woodpec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black-and-buff Woodpecker
The black-and-buff woodpecker (''Meiglyptes jugularis'') is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It is found in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. References black-and-buff woodpecker Birds of Southeast Asia black-and-buff woodpecker black-and-buff woodpecker The black-and-buff woodpecker (''Meiglyptes jugularis'') is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It is found in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest A for ... Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{woodpecker-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meiglyptes Jugularis (Black-and-buff Woodpecker)
The black-and-buff woodpecker (''Meiglyptes jugularis'') is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It is found in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. References black-and-buff woodpecker Birds of Southeast Asia black-and-buff woodpecker black-and-buff woodpecker The black-and-buff woodpecker (''Meiglyptes jugularis'') is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It is found in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. Reference ... Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{woodpecker-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buff-rumped Woodpecker (14100212853)
The buff-rumped woodpecker (''Meiglyptes grammithorax'') is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It is found in southern Myanmar, Thailand, Malaya, Sumatra and Borneo. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It was previously considered conspecific with the zebra woodpecker. References External linksImage at ADW buff-rumped woodpecker Birds of Malesia buff-rumped woodpecker The buff-rumped woodpecker (''Meiglyptes tristis'') is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It is found in southern Myanmar, Thailand, Malaya, Java, Sumatra and Borneo. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtro ... Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{woodpecker-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buff-necked Woodpecker
The buff-necked woodpecker (''Meiglyptes tukki'') is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical swamps. It is threatened by habitat loss. References buff-necked woodpecker Birds of Malesia buff-necked woodpecker The buff-necked woodpecker (''Meiglyptes tukki'') is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and ... Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{woodpecker-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White-rumped Woodpecker
The buff-rumped woodpecker (''Meiglyptes grammithorax'') is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It is found in southern Myanmar, Thailand, Malaya, Sumatra and Borneo. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It was previously considered conspecific with the zebra woodpecker. References External linksImage at ADW buff-rumped woodpecker Birds of Malesia buff-rumped woodpecker The buff-rumped woodpecker (''Meiglyptes tristis'') is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It is found in southern Myanmar, Thailand, Malaya, Java, Sumatra and Borneo. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtro ... Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{woodpecker-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rufous Woodpecker
The rufous woodpecker (''Micropternus brachyurus'') is a medium-sized brown woodpecker native to South and Southeast Asia. It is short-billed, foraging in pairs on small insects, particularly ants and termites, in scrub, evergreen, and deciduous forests and is noted for building its nest within the carton nests of arboreal ants in the genus ''Crematogaster''. It was for sometime placed in the otherwise Neotropical genus ''Celeus'' but this has been shown to be a case of evolutionary convergence and molecular phylogenetic studies support its placement in the monotypic genus ''Micropternus''. Taxonomy This species was formerly placed in the South American genus ''Celeus'' due to external resemblance but its disjunct distribution placed it in doubt. Studied in 2006 based on DNA sequence comparisons have confirmed that the rufous woodpecker is not closely related to ''Celeus'' and is a sister of the genus ''Meiglyptes'' and best placed within the monotypic genus ''Micropternus''. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Picinae
Picinae containing the true woodpeckers is one of three subfamilies that make up the woodpecker family Picidae. True woodpeckers are found over much of the world, but do not occur in Madagascar or Australasia. Woodpeckers gained their English name because of the habit of some species of tapping and pecking noisily on tree trunks with their beaks and heads. This is both a means of communication to signal possession of territory to their rivals, and a method of locating and accessing insect larvae found under the bark or in long winding tunnels in the tree or upright log. Physiology and behaviour Some woodpeckers and wrynecks in the order Piciformes have zygodactyl feet, with two toes pointing forward, and two backward. These feet, though adapted for clinging to a vertical surface, can be used for grasping or perching. Several species have only three toes. The woodpecker's long tongue, in many cases as long as the woodpecker itself, can be darted forward to capture insects. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Picidae
Woodpeckers are part of the bird family Picidae, which also includes the piculets, wrynecks, and sapsuckers. Members of this family are found worldwide, except for Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Madagascar, and the extreme polar regions. Most species live in forests or woodland habitats, although a few species are known that live in treeless areas, such as rocky hillsides and deserts, and the Gila woodpecker specialises in exploiting cacti. Members of this family are chiefly known for their characteristic behaviour. They mostly forage for insect prey on the trunks and branches of trees, and often communicate by drumming with their beaks, producing a reverberatory sound that can be heard at some distance. Some species vary their diet with fruits, birds' eggs, small animals, tree sap, human scraps, and carrion. They usually nest and roost in holes that they excavate in tree trunks, and their abandoned holes are of importance to other cavity-nesting birds. They sometimes come ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subfamily
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end subfamily botanical names with "-oideae", and zoological names with "-inae". See also * International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants * International Code of Zoological Nomenclature * Rank (botany) * Rank (zoology) In biological classification, taxonomic rank is the relative level of a group of organisms (a taxon) in an ancestral or hereditary hierarchy. A common system consists of species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, kingdom, domain. While ... Sources {{biology-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sister Taxon
In phylogenetics, a sister group or sister taxon, also called an adelphotaxon, comprises the closest relative(s) of another given unit in an evolutionary tree. Definition The expression is most easily illustrated by a cladogram: Taxon A and taxon B are sister groups to each other. Taxa A and B, together with any other extant or extinct descendants of their most recent common ancestor (MRCA), form a monophyletic group, the clade AB. Clade AB and taxon C are also sister groups. Taxa A, B, and C, together with all other descendants of their MRCA form the clade ABC. The whole clade ABC is itself a subtree of a larger tree which offers yet more sister group relationships, both among the leaves and among larger, more deeply rooted clades. The tree structure shown connects through its root to the rest of the universal tree of life. In cladistic standards, taxa A, B, and C may represent specimens, species, genera, or any other taxonomic units. If A and B are at the same taxonomi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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