Classification

Order:
  Piciformes
Family:
  Picidae
Genus:
   Colaptes
Scientific:
  Colaptes auratus

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Original description

Citation:
  (Linnaeus, C 1758)

Reference:
   Systema Naturae ed. 10 1 p.112

Protonym:
  Cuculus auratus

Type locality:
  Carolina, i.e., South Carolina.

Link:
  https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277#page/130/mode/1up

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Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  FF9D71AF908266A5

Avibase ID:
  avibase-FF9D71AF

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/FF9D71AF

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Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 178154

Geographic range:

• Colaptes auratus auratus: southeastern USA
• Colaptes auratus luteus: central Alaska to southern Labrador, Newfoundland, Montana, and northeastern USA
• Colaptes auratus chrysocaulosus: Cuba
• Colaptes auratus gundlachi: Grand Cayman Island
• Colaptes auratus cafer: southern Alaska and British Columbia to northern California
• Colaptes auratus mexicanus: central Mexico, from Nayarit and Durango eastward to Veracruz, southward to Oaxaca
• Colaptes auratus nanus: southwestern USA (Chisos Mountains, Texas) and northeastern Mexico (Coahuila to Tamaulipas, southward to San Luis Potosí)
• Colaptes auratus rufipileus: formerly Guadalupe Island, Mexico; extinct, last recorded 1906
• Colaptes auratus collaris: southwestern USA to northwestern Baja California and western Mexico (Durango)
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