Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Camarhynchus striatipecta
Pinzón carpintero de San Cristóbal, San Cristobal woodpecker finch
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Thraupidae
Genus
Camarhynchus
Species
striatipecta
Taxon category: Accepted
Originally described as a subspecies: Cactospiza pallida striatipecta Swarth, 1931. Elevated to valid species by Lawson et al. 2024.
Origin: Endemic
- Lawson, L. P. Nemeth, E., Dvorak, M., Cunninghame, F., Fessl, B., Mueller, J. C., Mosquera, D., Wendelin, B., Petren, K. (2024) A hidden finch from the Galapagos Islands: a genetically and morphologically distinctive woodpecker finch from San Cristobal Island Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2024, 202, zlae163
- Swarth, H.S. (1931) The Avifauna of the Galapagos Islands. Occ. Pap. Calif. Acad. Sci. 18: 1-299.
You are welcome to download and use the information found in this page, acknowledging its source.
This page should be cited as follows:
"Galapagos Species Database, Camarhynchus striatipecta", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=25558. Accessed 31 October 2026.