Trachyphonus

Taxobox
name = African terrestrial barbets

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image_caption = Red-and-yellow Barbet "Trachyphonus erythrocephalus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
subclassis = Neornithes
infraclassis = Neognathae
superordo = Neoaves
ordo = Piciformes
subordo = Pici
familia = Lybiidae
subfamilia = Trachyphoninae
subfamilia_authority =
genus = "Trachyphonus"
genus_authority = Ranzani, 1821
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision ="Trachyphonus darnaudii"
"Trachyphonus erythrocephalus"
"Trachyphonus margaritatus"
"Trachyphonus purpuratus"
"Trachyphonus usambiro"
"Trachyphonus vaillantii"

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 a monotypic subfamily Trachyphoninae.

pecies in taxonomic sequence

* Yellow-billed Barbet, "Trachyphonus purpuratus"
* Crested Barbet, "Trachyphonus vaillantii"
* Yellow-breasted Barbet, "Trachyphonus margaritatus"
* Red-and-yellow Barbet, "Trachyphonus erythrocephalus"
* D'Arnaud's Barbet, "Trachyphonus darnaudii"
* Usambiro Barbet, "Trachyphonus usambiro"

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 into this genusMlíkovský (2002)] , 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 [Ballmann (1969)] .

Footnotes

References

* (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] doi|10.1016/S0016-6995(69)80005-7 (HTML abstract)
* (2002): "Cenozoic Birds of the World, Part 1: Europe". Ninox Press, Prague. ISBN 80-901105-3-8 [http://www.nm.cz/download/JML-18-2002-CBE.pdf PDF fulltext]