Piculus
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Piculus is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae that are found in Central and South America.
Piculus is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae that are found in Central and South America. ==Taxonomy== The genus was introduced by the German naturalist Johann Baptist von Spix in 1824. The type species was subsequently designated as the golden-green woodpecker (Piculus chrysochloros) by the American ornithologist Harry C. Oberholser in 1923. The generic name is a diminutive of the Latin word Picus meaning "woodpecker". The genus forms part of the woodpecker subfamily Picinae and has a sister relationship to the genus Dryocopus whose species are found in Eurasia and the Americas. The genus Piculus is a member of the tribe Picini and belongs to a clade that contains five genera: Colaptes, Piculus, Mulleripicus, Dryocopus and Celeus. The genus contains seven species: Five other species, formerly placed here, are now in Colaptes. ==References==
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