Dendroplex

Dendroplex is a genus of bird in the woodcreeper subfamily (Dendrocolaptinae). It was long merged into Xiphorhynchus, but its distinctness was recently validated.[1][2]

Dendroplex
Straight-billed woodcreeper (Dendroplex picus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Dendrocolaptidae
Genus: Dendroplex
Swainson, 1827
Species

Dendroplex kienerii
Dendroplex picus

It contains the following species:

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Dendroplex picusStraight-billed woodcreeperBolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.
Dendroplex kieneriiZimmer's woodcreepernortheast Peru and southeast Colombia

References

  1. Aleixo, A., S. M. S. Gregory & J. Penhallurick. 2007. Fixation of the type species and revalidation of the genus Dendroplex Swainson, 1827 (Dendrocolaptidae). Bull. B. O. C. 127: 242-246.
  2. Aleixo, A. 2002. Molecular systematics and the role of the "várzea"-"terra-firme" ecotone in the diversification of Xiphorhynchus Woodcreepers (Aves: Dendrocolaptidae). Auk 119: 621-640.


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