see text Veniliornis is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae.

The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1854.

[2] The word Veniliornis combines the name of the Roman deity Venilia with the Greek word ornis meaning "bird".

[3] The type species was designated as the blood-colored woodpecker (Veniliornis sanguineus) by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855.

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