Mulleripicus

Mulleripicus is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae. They are found in South and Southeast Asia. The genus forms part of the woodpecker subfamily Picinae and has a sister relationship to the genus Dryocopus whose species are widely distributed in Eurasia and the Americas.

Mulleripicus
A pair of ashy woodpeckers (Mulleripicus fulvus)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Piciformes
Family:	Picidae
Tribe:	Picini
Genus:	Mulleripicus Bonaparte, 1854
Type species
Picus pulverulentus[1] Temminck, 1826
Species
see text

Taxonomy

The genus Mulleripicus was erected by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte to accommodate the great slaty woodpecker (Mulleripicus pulverulentus).^[2] The genus name honours the German naturalist Salomon Müller,^[3] The genus belongs to the tribe Picini and is a member of a clade that contains the five genera: Colaptes, Piculus, Mulleripicus, Dryocopus and Celeus.^[4]

The genus contains four species.^[5]

Genus 'Mulleripicus – Bonaparte, 1854 – four species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Ashy woodpecker Male Female	Mulleripicus fulvus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)	Sulawesi and surrounding islands in Indonesia	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Northern sooty woodpecker	Mulleripicus funebris (Valenciennes, 1826)	Luzon, Marinduque, Catanduanes and the Polillo Islands in the Philippines	Size: Habitat: Diet:	NT
Southern sooty woodpecker	Mulleripicus fuliginosus Tweeddale, 1877	Mindanao, Leyte, and Samar	Size: Habitat: Diet:	VU
Great slaty woodpecker	Mulleripicus pulverulentus (, )	Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC