Velasquez's woodpecker [SEP] parent taxon
Velasquez's woodpecker
Velasquez's woodpecker ("Melanerpes santacruzi") is a species of bird in the family Picidae usually considered conspecific with the golden-fronted woodpecker ("Melanerpes aurifrons"). The IOC has split the species, but many other taxonomists have not, including the American Ornithological Society.
It is endemic to southern Mexico and parts of Central America.br
There are eleven subspecies if the bird is considered distinct:
- "M. s. polygrammus" – : Oaxaca to Chiapas (southwest Mexico).
Grey-breasted woodpecker
- Yucatan woodpecker
- Red-crowned woodpecker
- Gila woodpecker
- Hoffmann's woodpecker
- Golden-fronted woodpecker
- Velasquez's woodpecker
- Red-bellied woodpecker
- West Indian woodpecker
- Williamson's sapsucker
- Yellow-bellied sapsucker
- Red-naped sapsucker
- Red-breasted sapsucker
- Cuban green woodpecker
- Fine-spotted woodpecker
- Bennett's woodpecker
- Speckle-throated woodpecker
- Nubian woodpecker
- Golden-tailed woodpecker