Classification

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

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  FF9D71AF908266A5

Avibase ID:
  avibase-FF9D71AF

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

Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 178154

Geographic range:

• Colaptes auratus: various habitats with standing trees and open ground from western Alaska eastward across Canada to Newfoundland, and southward across most US to southern California, northern Baja California (Mexico), southwestern Texas, the Gulf of Mexico coast and southern Florida; in Mexico southward along the Sierra Madre Occidental and Oriental to northern Michoacan, northern Oaxaca, and in mountains of Guerrero to southern Oaxaca; also in Cuba and Grand Cayman Island
• 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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