Veniliornis
Genus of birds
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Veniliornis is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae. They are native to the Neotropics.
| Veniliornis | |
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| A male yellow-eared woodpecker (Veniliornis maculifrons) in Ilha Grande, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Picidae |
| Tribe: | Melanerpini |
| Genus: | Veniliornis Bonaparte, 1854 |
| Type species | |
| Picus sanguineus[1] Lichtenstein, 1793 | |
| Species | |
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Taxonomy
The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1854.[2] The word Veniliornis combines the name of the Roman deity Venilia with the Greek word ornis meaning "bird".[3] The type species was designated as the blood-colored woodpecker (Veniliornis sanguineus) by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855.[4][5]
The genus contains the following 14 species:[6]
| Image | Common name | Scientific name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Scarlet-backed woodpecker | Veniliornis callonotus | Colombia, Ecuador and northern Peru |
.jpg) | Yellow-vented woodpecker | Veniliornis dignus | Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela |
.jpg) | Bar-bellied woodpecker | Veniliornis nigriceps | Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. |
 | Little woodpecker | Veniliornis passerinus | South America east of the Andes |
.jpg) | Dot-fronted woodpecker | Veniliornis frontalis | Argentina and Bolivia. |
 | White-spotted woodpecker | Veniliornis spilogaster | Brazil, Uruguay, eastern Paraguay and northeastern Argentina. |
_(cropped).jpg) | Blood-colored woodpecker | Veniliornis sanguineus | Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana |
.jpg) | Red-rumped woodpecker | Veniliornis kirkii | Costa Rica south and east to Ecuador, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago |
.JPG) | Red-stained woodpecker | Veniliornis affinis | eastern Brazil and the Amazon Basin. |
 | Chocó woodpecker | Veniliornis chocoensis | Colombia and Ecuador. |
.JPG) | Golden-collared woodpecker | Veniliornis cassini | northern Brazil, the Guianas, Venezuela and far eastern Colombia. |
| Yellow-eared woodpecker | Veniliornis maculifrons | eastern Brazil. |
 | Striped woodpecker | Veniliornis lignarius – formerly in Picoides[7][8] | southwestern South America. |
_(8077531219).jpg) | Checkered woodpecker | Veniliornis mixtus – formerly in Picoides[7][8] | eastern South America. |
