Striped Woodpecker

Taxobox
name = Striped Woodpecker
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1

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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Piciformes
familia = Picidae
genus = "Veniliornis"
species = "V. lignarius"
binomial = "Veniliornis lignarius"
binomial_authority = (Molina, 1782)

The Striped Woodpecker ("Veniliornis lignarius") is a woodpecker found in southwestern South America. It occurs nothwest- and southwestwards of the range of its sister taxon, the Checkered Woodpecker, in the Cordillera Patagonica and its foothills, and in another population in the Andes of Bolivia and the adjacent foothills. As the latter is isolated and differs in numerous respects, it is being considered to separate it as "V. (lignarius) puncticeps".

This species was long placed in the genus "Picoides" where it was, together with its sister species, considered something of an oddball. In 2006, Moore "et al." published research on mtDNA COI and Cyt "b" sequences which suggests that the Striped and Checkered Woodpeckers are actually most closely related to the White-spotted Woodpecker, "Veniliornis spilogaster", a peculiar "Picoides"-like species which also was hitherto unique in its genus.

References

* Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern

* del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A. & Sargatal, J. (editors) (2002): "Handbook of the Birds of the World. Vol 7: Jacamars to Woodpeckers": Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ISBN 84-87334-22-9

* Moore, William S.; Weibel, Amy C. & Agius, Andrea (2006): Mitochondrial DNA phylogeny of the woodpecker genus "Veniliornis" (Picidae, Picinae) and related genera implies convergent evolution of plumage patterns. "Biol. J. Linn. Soc." 87: 611–624. [http://bio.wayne.edu/profhtml/moore/PUBLICATIONS/MooreEtal2006Veniliornis.pdf PDF fulltext]

External links

* [http://www.avesdechile.cl/293en.htm Aves de Chile: striped Woodpecker] - Description and photos