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  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Picidae.

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Examples

  • Endemism is relatively low except for avifauna, which includes the species buffy hummingbird (Leucippus fallax) and chesnut piculet (Picumnus cinnamomeus).

    Lara-Falcón dry forests 2008

  • Other suspected new species include a dwarf woodpecker (genus Picumnus) and horned toad (genus Proceratophrys).

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • Endemic species found here include Rio Branco antbirds (Cercomacra carbonaria), spot-backed antwrens (Herpsilochmus dorsimaculatus), chestnut-crested antbirds (Rhegmatorhina cristata), and Orinoco piculets (Picumnus pumilus).

    Rio Negro campinarana 2008

  • The park is also the only protected area within which is found the extremely range-restricted rusty-necked piculet Picumnus fuscus that is known only from seasonally flooded forests along the Iténez River.

    Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, Bolivia 2008

  • The greyish piculet (Picumnus granadensis) and apical flycatcher (Myiarchus apicalis) are found in tropical deciduous and secondary forest, tropical lowland evergreen forest edge, and scrub.

    Cauca Valley dry forests 2007

  • Picumnus and Pilumnus were two household divinities of the Romans, who were the special presiding deities of new-born infants.

    Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens

  • Immediately a sacred meal was offered to the two field-deities, Picumnus and

    The Religion of Ancient Rome Cyril Bailey 1914

  • The rest of the endemic birds are under the status "least concern"; they include the pygmy swift (Tachornis furcata), buffy hummingbird (Leucippus fallax), chesnut piculet (Picumnus cinnamomeus), white-whiskered spinetail (Synallaxis candei), black-backed antshrike (Sakesphorus melanonotus), slender-billd tyrannulet (Inezia tenuirostris), tocuyo sparrow (Arremonops tocuyensis), and vermilion cardinal (Cardinalis phoeniceus).

    Lara-Falcón dry forests 2008

  • They include the pygmy swift (Tachornis furcata), buffy hummingbird (Leucippus fallax), chesnut piculet (Picumnus cinnamomeus), white-whiskered spinetail (Synallaxis candei), black-backed antshrike (Sakesphorus melanonotus), slender-billd tyrannulet (Inezia tenuirostris), tocuyo sparrow (Arremonops tocuyensis), and vermilion cardinal (Cardinalis phoeniceus).

    La Costa xeric shrublands 2008

  • The endemic birds listed below have "least concern"; status; they include the pygmy swift (Tachornis furcata), buffy hummingbird (Leucippus fallax), chesnut piculet (Picumnus cinnamomeus), white-whiskered spinetail (Synallaxis candei), black-backed antshrike (Sakesphorus melanonotus), slender-billed tyrannulet (Inezia tenuirostris), tocuyo sparrow (Arremonops tocuyensis), and vermilion cardinal (Cardinalis phoeniceus).

    Guajira-Barranquilla xeric scrub 2008

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