Mulleripicus | |
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A pair of ashy woodpeckers (Mulleripicus fulvus) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Piciformes |
Family: | Picidae |
Tribe: | Picini |
Genus: | Mulleripicus Bonaparte, 1854 |
Type species | |
Picus pulverulentus[1] Temminck, 1826
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Species | |
see text |
Mulleripicus is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae. They are found in South and Southeast Asia. The genus forms part of the woodpecker subfamily Picinae and has a sister relationship to the genus Dryocopus whose species are widely distributed in Eurasia and the Americas.