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Mulleripicus
A pair of ashy woodpeckers (Mulleripicus fulvus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Tribe: Picini
Genus: Mulleripicus
Bonaparte, 1854
Type species
Picus pulverulentus[1]
Temminck, 1826
Species

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Mulleripicus is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae. They are found in South and Southeast Asia. The genus forms part of the woodpecker subfamily Picinae and has a sister relationship to the genus Dryocopus whose species are widely distributed in Eurasia and the Americas.

Taxonomy

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The genus Mulleripicus was erected by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte to accommodate the great slaty woodpecker (Mulleripicus pulverulentus).[2] The genus name honours the German naturalist Salomon Müller,[3] The genus belongs to the tribe Picini and is a member of a clade that contains the five genera: Colaptes, Piculus, Mulleripicus, Dryocopus and Celeus.[4]

The genus contains four species.[5]

Genus 'Mulleripicus Bonaparte, 1854 – four species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
Ashy woodpecker


Male
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Female

Mulleripicus fulvus
(Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)
Sulawesi and surrounding islands in Indonesia Size:

Habitat:

Diet:
 LC 


Northern sooty woodpecker

Mulleripicus funebris
(Valenciennes, 1826)
Luzon, Marinduque, Catanduanes and the Polillo Islands in the Philippines Size:

Habitat:

Diet:
 NT 


Southern sooty woodpecker

Mulleripicus fuliginosus
Tweeddale, 1877
Mindanao, Leyte, and Samar Size:

Habitat:

Diet:
 VU 


Great slaty woodpecker

Mulleripicus pulverulentus
(, )
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam
Map of range
Size:

Habitat:

Diet:
 LC 




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