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Dendroplex

Dendroplex
Straight-billed woodcreeper (Dendroplex picus)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Furnariidae
Subfamily: Dendrocolaptinae
Genus: Dendroplex
Swainson, 1827
Type species
Oriolus picus
Species

Dendroplex kienerii
Dendroplex picus

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

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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
Dendroplex picus Straight-billed woodcreeper Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.
Dendroplex kienerii Zimmer's woodcreeper Amazon river and tributaries

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