Xiphidiopicus Percussus Bird

Xiphidiopicus Percussus Bird

Xiphidiopicus Percussus Bird

English Name:  Cuban Green Woodpecker
Latin Name:  Xiphidiopicus percussus
Protonym:  Picus percussus Pl.Col. livr.66 pl.390
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Picidae / Xiphidiopicus
Taxonomy Code:  cugwoo1
Type Locality:  Cuba.
Author:  Temminck
Publish Year:  1826
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

XIPHIDIOPICUS
(Picidae; Ϯ Cuban Green Woodpecker X. percussus) Gr. ξιφιδιον xiphidion  dagger  < dim. ξιφος xiphos  sword; Late Gr. πικος pikos  woodpecker  < L. picus  woodpecker; "35. XIPHIDIOPICUS, Bp.  — 213. percussus, Temm." (Bonaparte 1854); "Xiphidiopicus Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, 2, 1854, p. 126. (separately paged reprint, Consp. Vol. Zygodact., p. 11.) Type, by monotypy Picus percussus Temminck." (Peters 1948, VI, 218).
Var. Xiphidiopipo (Gr. πιπω pipō  spotted woodpecker).
Synon. Dolichopicos.

percussa / percussum / percussus
L. percussus  slain, stabbed (i.e. blood-stained)  < percutere  to strike down  < per  by, through; quatere  to shatter.

SUBSPECIES

Cuban Green Woodpecker (percussus)
Latin Name: Xiphidiopicus percussus percussus
percussa / percussum / percussus
L. percussus  slain, stabbed (i.e. blood-stained)  < percutere  to strike down  < per  by, through; quatere  to shatter.

Cuban Green Woodpecker (insulaepinorum)
Latin Name: Xiphidiopicus percussus insulaepinorum
insulaepinorum
Isle of Pines (= Isla de Pinos = Isla de la Juventud), Cuba.