Chrysocolaptes [guttacristatus or socialis] (Greater or Malabar Flameback)

Greater or Malabar Flameback

Chrysocolaptes [guttacristatus or socialis] (= Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) (Tickell, SR 1833)

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

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Classification

Order:
  Piciformes
Family:
  Picidae
Genus:
   Chrysocolaptes
Scientific:
  Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus

Original description

Citation:
(Tickell, SR 1833)

Reference:
J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 2 p.578

Protonym:
Picus Guttacristatus

Type locality:
Jungles of Borabhum and Dholbhum.

Link:
https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37179078

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
B82693BCD2372924

Avibase ID:
avibase-B82693BC

Short link:
https://avibase.ca/B82693BC

Taxonomic Serial Number:
TSN: 686582

Geographic range:

Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus guttacristatus: foothills in east-central Nepal eastward to southern China (Yunnan) and southward to Bangladesh, eastern India (south to southeastern Madhya Pradesh and northern Andhra Pradesh), Thailand, and Indochina
Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus sultaneus: Himalayan foothills in northwestern India and western Nepal
Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus indomalayicus: Malay Peninsula to Sumatra and western Java
Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus andrewsi: northeastern Borneo
Chrysocolaptes socialis: Western Ghats and coastal western India
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Source: Clements checklist

English:
Greater or Malabar Flameback
French:
Pic de Tickell ou P. de Malabar

Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:

Avibase taxonomic concepts (current): Greater or Malabar Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes [guttacristatus or socialis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023): Greater or Malabar Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes [guttacristatus or socialis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024): 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]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v6b (Jul 2022): Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v7 (Dec 2022): Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v8 (Dec 2023): Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v9 (Oct 2024): Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1]
Clements, version 2021: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1]
Clements, version 2022: 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]
eBird version 2022: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1]
eBird version 2023: Greater/Malabar Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus/socialis)
eBird version 2024: Greater/Malabar Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus/socialis)
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]
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IOC World Bird Names, version 4.1: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1]
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IOC World Bird Names, version 5.1: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1]
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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]
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IOC World Bird Names, version 7.1: Greater Flameback ( Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) [version 1]
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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]
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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]

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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Dinopium javanense or Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus (taxon group)

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