Dendroplex
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Dendroplex is a genus of birds in the woodcreeper subfamily Dendrocolaptinae. It was long merged into Xiphorhynchus, but its distinctness has now been established.[1]
Taxonomy
The genus Dendroplex was introduced in 1827 by the English naturalist William Swainson.[2] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek dendron meaning "tree" with plēssō meaning "to strike".[3] Swainson did not specify a type species but this was fixed in 2007 as the straight-billed woodcreeper which had first been described in 1788 by Johann Friedrich Gmelin with the binomial name Oriolus picus.[4][5]
The genus contains two species:[6]
| Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| File:Dendroplex picus 2.jpg | Dendroplex picus | Straight-billed woodcreeper | Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. |
| File:Dendroplex kienerii - Zimmer's Woodcreeper.JPG | Dendroplex kienerii | Zimmer's woodcreeper | Amazon river and tributaries |
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