Genus of birds
Chloropicus is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae that are native to Sub-Saharan Africa.
Taxonomy.
The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Alfred Malherbe in 1845 with the fire-bellied woodpecker ("Chloropicus pyrrhogaster") as the type species. The word "Chloropicus" is from the Greek "khlōros" meaning green and "pikos" meaning woodpecker. Molecular genetic studies have shown that the genus "Chloropicus" is sister to the genus "Dendropicos". Species in this genus were previously sometimes assigned to "Dendropicos".
The genus contains the three species:
References.
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