Campephilus
Genus of birds
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Campephilus is a genus of large American woodpeckers in the family Picidae.[2]
| Campephilus | |
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| Pale-billed woodpecker (Campephilus guatemalensis) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Picidae |
| Tribe: | Campephilini |
| Genus: | Campephilus G.R. Gray, 1840 |
| Type species | |
| Picus principalis[1] Linnaeus, 1758 | |
| Species | |
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Taxonomy
The genus Campephilus was introduced by English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1840, with the ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) as the type species.[3] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek kampē meaning "caterpillar" and philos meaning "loving".[4] The genus is placed in the tribe Campephilini in the subfamily Picinae and is sister to a clade containing woodpeckers from Southeast Asia in the genera Chrysocolaptes, Blythipicus, and Reinwardtipicus.[5]
Species
The genus contains 12 species:[6]
| Image | Common name | Scientific name | Distribution | IUCN status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Powerful woodpecker | Campephilus pollens | Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela | LC |
.jpg) | Splendid woodpecker | Campephilus splendens | Panama, western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador | LC |
.jpg) | Crimson-bellied woodpecker | Campephilus haematogaster | Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. | LC |
 | Red-necked woodpecker | Campephilus rubricollis | Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. | LC |
 | Robust woodpecker | Campephilus robustus | Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. | LC |
_female_-_Mato_Grosso.jpg) | Crimson-crested woodpecker | Campephilus melanoleucos | Panama south to northern border regions of Argentina, and on Trinidad. | LC |
 | Guayaquil woodpecker | Campephilus gayaquilensis | southern Colombia, Ecuador and northern Peru. | LC |
| Pale-billed woodpecker | Campephilus guatemalensis | northern Mexico to western Panama. | LC |
_(8077580069).jpg) | Cream-backed woodpecker | Campephilus leucopogon | Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and far northwestern Uruguay. | LC |
 | Magellanic woodpecker | Campephilus magellanicus | southern Chile and southwestern Argentina | LC |
 | Ivory-billed woodpecker | Campephilus principalis | Southern United States | CR |
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Cuban ivory-billed woodpecker | Campephilus principalis bairdii | Cuba | CR[a] |
 | (?†) Imperial woodpecker | Campephilus imperialis – possibly extinct (1956 – 2001)[b] | Mexico | CR possibly EX |
A fossil species, C. dalquesti, was described from bones found in Late Pleistocene deposits of Scurry County, Texas.[7]
Notes
- Shares its status with the nominate species
- Declared extinct by the Federal Government of Mexico in 2001, but they have a recovery plan in the event of rediscovery.