The greater flameback also known as greater goldenback, large golden-backed woodpecker or Malherbe's golden-backed woodpecker, is a woodpecker species. It occurs widely in the northern Indian subcontinent, eastwards to southern China, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, western and central Java and northeast Borneo. Source: Wikipedia
Citation:
(Tickell, 1833)
Reference:
J.Asiat.Soc.Bengal p.578
Protonym:
Picus Guttacristatus
Avibase ID:
B82693BCD2372924
Avibase ID:
avibase-B82693BC
Short link:
https://avibase.ca/B82693BC
Taxonomic Serial Number:
TSN: 686582
Geographic range:
Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:
Avibase taxonomic concepts (current): Greater or Malabar Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes [guttacristatus or socialis]) |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 01 (August 2013): Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 02 (May 2014): Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 03 (March 2015): Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 04 (Aug 2016): Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 05 (Jan 2017): Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018): Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020): Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021): Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
Birdlife checklist version 07 (Jul 2014): Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
Birdlife checklist version 08 (Oct 2015): Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
Birdlife checklist version 09 (Dec 2016): Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
Birdlife checklist version 09.1 (Jun 2017): Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v2 (Dec 2017): Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v3 (Nov 2018): Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v4 (Dec 2019): Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v5 (Dec 2020): Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v6 (Dec 2021): Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
Clements, version 2021: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
Clements 6th edition (version 6.7 incl. 2012 revisions): Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
Clements 6th edition (version 6.8 incl. 2013 revisions): Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
Clements 6th edition (version 6.9 incl. 2014 revisions): Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
Clements, version 2015: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
Clements, version 2016: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
Clements, version 2017: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
Clements, version 2018: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
Clements, version 2019: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
eBird version 1.53: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
eBird version 1.54: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
eBird version 1.55: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
eBird version 2015: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
eBird version 2016: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
eBird version 2017: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
eBird version 2018: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
eBird version 2019: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
eBird version 2021: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (31/01/2015): Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (03/07/2017): Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
Handbook of the Birds of the World and Birdlife (Dec 2017): Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
Handbook of the Birds of the World and Birdlife (Dec 2018): Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.11: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 3.1: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 3.2: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 3.3: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 3.4: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 3.5: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 4.1: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 4.2: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 4.3: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 4.4: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 5.1: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 5.2: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 5.3: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 5.4: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 6.1: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 6.2: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 6.3: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 6.4: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 7.1: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 7.2: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 7.3: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 8.1: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 8.2: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 9.1: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 9.2: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 10.1: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 10.2: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 11.1: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 11.2: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
Working Group Avian Checklists, version 0.01: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1] |
Taxonomic status:
Species status: species group (sometimes a species)
This taxon is a subspecies of
Chrysocolaptes [lucidus, haematribon, xanthocephalus, erythrocephalus, strictus, guttacristatus]
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