Trachyphonus
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The African terrestrial barbets are the bird genus Trachyphonus in the African barbet family (Lybiidae), which was formerly included in the Capitonidae and sometimes in the Ramphastidae. These birds are more terrestrial than the other African barbets and differ in some other respects too; they are thus separated in the subfamily Trachyphoninae.
Species in taxonomic sequence
The genus contains five species:[1]
| Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| File:Trachyphonus vaillantii -near Sand River Selous, Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania-8.jpg | Crested barbet | Trachyphonus vaillantii | Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. |
| File:Trachyphonus margaritatus 160362627.jpg | Yellow-breasted barbet | Trachyphonus margaritatus | Burkina Faso, Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, and Sudan. |
| File:Trachyphonus erythrocephalus -adult female-8a.jpg | Red-and-yellow barbet | Trachyphonus erythrocephalus | l Kenya to north-east Tanzania. |
| File:2009-darnauds-barbet.jpg | D'Arnaud's barbet | Trachyphonus darnaudii | West Africa |
| File:Usambiro Barbet - Trachyphonus darnaudii usambiro - Kenya IMG 5365, crop.jpg | Usambiro barbet | Trachyphonus usambiro | Kenya and northern Tanzania, |
Extinct taxa
The Early to Middle Miocene genus Capitonides from Europe, as well as "CMC 152", a distal carpometacarpus from the Middle Miocene locality of Grive-Saint-Alban (France), have been placed in this genus,[2] but this move is not widely accepted. In the case of "CMC 152", this may be more warranted as this fragment differs from Capitonides and is more similar to extant (presumably Old World) barbets.[3]
References
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- ↑ Mlíkovský, Jirí (2002): Cenozoic Birds of the World, Part 1: Europe. Ninox Press, Prague. Template:ISBN PDF fulltext Template:Webarchive
- ↑ Ballmann, Peter (1969): Les Oiseaux miocènes de la Grive-Saint-Alban (Isère) [The Miocene birds of Grive-Saint-Alban (Isère)]. Geobios 2: 157–204. [French with English abstract] Script error: No such module "CS1 identifiers". (HTML abstract)
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