Classification

Original description

Citation:
  (Swainson, WJ 1821)

Reference:
   Zool. Illustr. ser.1, vol.2, no.15 pl.78,text

Imprint year:
  1821-22

Protonym:
  Picus affinis

Type locality:
  'Provinces of Bahia and Rio de Janeiro' = Baia [=Bahia, Brazil]

Link:
  https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/92675#page/81/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  B42D0E6D5164BC3F

Avibase ID:
  avibase-B42D0E6D

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/B42D0E6D

Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 554066

Geographic range:

• Veniliornis chocoensis: humid forest of northwestern Colombia to northwestern Ecuador
• Veniliornis cassini: eastern and southeastern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northeastern Brazil (north of Amazon)
• Veniliornis affinis: forest and edge of lowlands and hills of western and southern Amazonia, and disjunctly in Atlantic forest of eastern Brazil
• Veniliornis affinis affinis: eastern Brazil (Pernambuco southward to Espírito Santo)
• Veniliornis affinis orenocensis: southeastern Colombia to southern Venezuela and northern Brazil (north of the Amazon River and eastward to Rio Negro)
• Veniliornis affinis hilaris: eastern Ecuador through eastern Peru and western Brazil (eastward to Rio Madeira), and southward to northern Bolivia and western Mato Grosso
• Veniliornis affinis ruficeps: central and northeastern Brazil south of the Amazon River (eastward from Rio Madeira and southward to Mato Grosso)
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