Fire-bellied Woodpecker
Chloropicus pyrrhogaster(Malherbe, A, 1845)
English (US) Fire-bellied Woodpecker
The Fire-bellied Woodpecker (Chloropicus pyrrhogaster) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Picidae (Woodpeckers) in the order Piciformes.
Range: Sierra Leone and southern Guinea to southern Nigeria and southwestern CameroonRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Chloropicus pyrrhogaster
- Family
- Picidae (Woodpeckers)
- Order
- Piciformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Fire-bellied Woodpecker
- Described by
- (Malherbe, A, 1845)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Picus (Chloropicus) Pyrrhogaster
- Described by
- (Malherbe, A, 1845)
- Type locality
- South Africa = Sierra Leone.
- Original description
- Revue Zoologique, par la Société Cuvierienne 8 p.399
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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