Biology:Naked-faced barbet

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Short description: Species of bird

Naked-faced barbet
A monograph of the Capitonidæ, or scansorial barbets (20181451181), crop.jpg
male (left) and female (right)
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Lybiidae
Genus: Gymnobucco
Species:
G. calvus
Binomial name
Gymnobucco calvus
(Lafresnaye, 1841)
Subspecies[2]
  • G. c. calvus - (Lafresnaye, 1841)
  • G. c. congicus - Chapin, 1932
  • G. c. vernayi - Boulton, 1931
Naked-faced Barbed

The naked-faced barbet (Gymnobucco calvus) is a bird species in the family Lybiidae (the African barbets). It used to be placed in the family Bucconidae (puffbirds), which has been split up; alternatively, it may be included in a vastly expanded Ramphastidae (toucans).

It is found in Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, DRC, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Togo.

References

  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Gymnobucco calvus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22726016A94909149. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22726016A94909149.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22726016/94909149. Retrieved 12 November 2021. 
  2. Gill F, D Donsker & P Rasmussen (Eds). 2020. IOC World Bird List (v10.2). doi : 10.14344/IOC.ML.10.2.

Wikidata ☰ Q1270764 entry