Tricholaema

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Tricholaema
TricholaemaSmit.jpg
Black-throated barbet (above) and pied barbet (below); illustration by Joseph Smit, 1891
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Lybiidae
Genus: Tricholaema
Verreaux & Verreaux, 1855
Species

Tricholaema diademata
Tricholaema frontata
Tricholaema hirsuta
Tricholaema lacrymosa
Tricholaema leucomelas
Tricholaema melanocephala

Tricholaema is a bird genus in the African barbet family Lybiidae. It was formerly included with the New World barbets in the family Capitonidae and sometimes also in the Ramphastidae.

The genus Tricholaema was introduced by the French brothers Jules and Édouard Verreaux in 1855 with the hairy-breasted barbet (Tricholaema hirsuta) as the type species. [1] The generic name combines the Ancient Greek thrix meaning hair and laimos meaning "throat". [2]

The genus contains the following six species: [3]

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Hairy-breasted Barbet - Bobiri - Ghana 14 S4E3198 (16197881782).jpg Tricholaema hirsuta Hairy-breasted barbet Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo and Uganda
Red-fronted barbet (Tricholaema diademata).jpg Tricholaema diademata Red-fronted barbet Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Miombo Pied Barbet, Sakania, DRC (10512484525).jpg Tricholaema frontata Miombo pied barbet central Angola, the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Malawi, southwest Tanzania, and Zambia
Tricholaema leucomelas.jpg Tricholaema leucomelas Acacia pied barbet Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Spot-flanked Barbet - Kenya IMG 5387.jpg Tricholaema lacrymosa Spot-flanked barbet Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.
Black-throated Barbet - KenyaNH8O1818 (16222425489).jpg Tricholaema melanocephala Black-throated barbet Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.

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References

  1. Verreaux, Jules; Verreaux, Édouard (1855). "Oiseaux nouveaux du Gabon". Journal für Ornithologie (in Latin and French). 3: 101–106 [102–103].
  2. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . London: Christopher Helm. p.  389. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
  3. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Jacamars, puffbirds, toucans, barbets, honeyguides". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 6 August 2019.