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Dendrocopos major  (Linnaeus, 1758)
Taxonomic Serial No.: 554048

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Species  
  Synonym(s):    
  Common Name(s): Great Spotted Woodpecker [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassAves  – Birds, oiseaux  
                         OrderPiciformes  – Woodpeckers, pic-bois  
                            FamilyPicidae  – Woodpeckers, Wrynecks, fourmiliers, pic-bois  
                               SubfamilyPicinae   
                                  GenusDendrocopos Koch, 1816  
                                     SpeciesDendrocopos major (Linnaeus, 1758) – Great Spotted Woodpecker  
    Direct Children:  
                                        Subspecies Dendrocopos major anglicus Hartert, 1900  
                                        Subspecies Dendrocopos major beicki (Stresemann, 1927)  
                                        Subspecies Dendrocopos major brevirostris (Reichenbach, 1854)  
                                        Subspecies Dendrocopos major cabanisi (Malherbe, 1854)  
                                        Subspecies Dendrocopos major canariensis (A. F. Koenig, 1889)  
                                        Subspecies Dendrocopos major candidus (Stresemann, 1919)  
                                        Subspecies Dendrocopos major hainanus Hartert & Hesse, 1911  
                                        Subspecies Dendrocopos major harterti Arrigoni degli Oddi, 1902  
                                        Subspecies Dendrocopos major hispanus (Schluter, 1908)  
                                        Subspecies Dendrocopos major italiae (Stresemann, 1919)  
                                        Subspecies Dendrocopos major japonicus (Seebohm, 1883)  
                                        Subspecies Dendrocopos major kamtschaticus (Dybowski, 1883)  
                                        Subspecies Dendrocopos major major (Linnaeus, 1758)  
                                        Subspecies Dendrocopos major mandarinus (Malherbe, 1857)  
                                        Subspecies Dendrocopos major mauritanus (C. L. Brehm, 1855)  
                                        Subspecies Dendrocopos major numidus (Malherbe, 1843)  
                                        Subspecies Dendrocopos major paphlagoniae (Kummerlöwe & Niethammer, 1935)  
                                        Subspecies Dendrocopos major parroti Hartert, 1911  
                                        Subspecies Dendrocopos major pinetorum (C. L. Brehm, 1831)  
                                        Subspecies Dendrocopos major poelzami (Bogdanov, 1879)  
                                        Subspecies Dendrocopos major stresemanni (Rensch, 1923)  
                                        Subspecies Dendrocopos major tenuirostris Buturlin, 1906  
                                        Subspecies Dendrocopos major thanneri le Roi, 1911  
                                        Subspecies Dendrocopos major wulashanicus Cheng, Xian, Y. Zhang & Jiang, 1975  
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Alan P. Peterson, M.D.  
  Notes: PO Box 1999 Walla Walla, Washington 99362-0999   
  Reference for: Dendrocopos major    
       
  Expert: Richard C. Banks  
  Notes: Chief, Bird Section, U.S.G.S. - B.R.D. - P.W.R.C.   
  Reference for: Dendrocopos major    
       
  Other Source(s):    
  Source: AOU Check-List (07-2005), website (version Jul-2005)  
  Acquired: 2005   
  Notes: American Ornithologists' Union's "LIST OF THE 2,037 BIRD SPECIES (WITH SCIENTIFIC AND ENGLISH NAMES) KNOWN FROM THE A.O.U. CHECK-LIST AREA" (AOU Check-list, 7th edition, updated with Supplements 42-46), maintained at http://www.aou.org/   
  Reference for: Dendrocopos major, Great Spotted Woodpecker [English]   
       
  Source: IOC World Bird List (v 10.2), website (version 10.2), website (version 10.2)  
  Acquired: 2020   
  Notes: Gill, F., and D. Donsker, eds. 2020. IOC World Bird List (v 10.2). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org [Accessed 01 Dec, 2020]   
  Reference for: Dendrocopos major   
       
  Source: Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource, 2020.04.03, website (version 03-Apr-20)  
  Acquired: 2020   
  Notes: Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource maintained by Alan P. Peterson at http://www.zoonomen.net   
  Reference for: Dendrocopos major   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Gill, Frank, and Minturn Wright  
  Publication Date: 2006   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Birds of the World: Recommended English Names   
  Page(s): ix + 259   
  Publisher: Princeton University Press   
  Publication Place: Princeton, New Jersey, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-691-12827-8   
  Notes: Includes a CD-ROM with the full dataset   
  Reference for: Dendrocopos major, Great Spotted Woodpecker [English]   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Howell, Steve N. G., Ian Lewington, and Will Russell  
  Publication Date: 2014   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Rare Birds of North America   
  Page(s): xviii + 428   
  Publisher: Princeton University Press   
  Publication Place: Princeton, New Jersey, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 9780691117966   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Dendrocopos major   
       

 Geographic Information
       
  Geographic Division: North America  
    Africa  
    Europe & Northern Asia (excluding China)  
    Southern Asia  
       
  Jurisdiction/Origin: Alaska, Incidental  
 

 

    

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