''Gecinulus'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae. The species are found in South and

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Taxonomy

The genus ''Gecinulus'' was introduced by the English zoologist Edward Blyth in 1840 to accommodate the

pale-headed woodpecker The pale-headed woodpecker (''Gecinulus grantia'') is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry fore ...

(''Gecinulus grantia''). The genus name is a diminutive of the genus name ''Gecinus'' which had been introduced by the German ornithologist

Friedrich Boie Friedrich Boie (4 June 1789 – 3 March 1870) was a German entomologist, herpetologist, ornithologist, and lawyer.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Universit ...

in 1831. ''Gecinus'' combines the

Classical Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic peri ...

''gē'' meaning "earth" or "ground" with ''kineō'' meaning "to move". The genus contains three species:

References

Bird genera Taxa named by Edward Blyth Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{woodpecker-stub