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Dendropicos

Dendropicos
Male Cardinal Woodpecker (Dendropicos fuscescens).jpg
Dendropicos fuscescens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Subfamily: Picinae
Genus: Dendropicos
Malherbe, 1849
Species

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Dendropicos is a genus of woodpeckers in the family Picidae that are native to Africa.

The genus Dendropicos formerly contained several additional species. A 2015 molecular phylogenetic study that analysed nuclear and DNA sequences from pied woodpeckers found that Dendropicos was polyphyletic. In the rearranged genera the bearded, fire-bellied and yellow breasted woodpeckers were moved to Chloropicus while the Arabian woodpecker was moved to Dendrocoptes. The taxonomic committee of the British Ornithologists' Union have recommended an alternative arrangement of species in which the genera Dendrocoptes and Leiopicus are combined into a larger Dendropicos.

The name of the genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Alfred Malherbe in 1849. The word Dendropicos is from the Greek dendron meaning tree and pikos for woodpecker.

The genus contains the following 12 species:



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