Western yellow-billed barbet

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Western yellow-billed barbet
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Lybiidae
Genus: Trachyphonus
Species:
T. goffinii
Binomial name
Trachyphonus goffinii
(Goffin, 1863)

The western yellow-billed barbet (Trachyphonus goffinii) is a species of bird in the African barbet family Lybiidae that is found from Sierra Leone to southwest Nigeria in West Africa. The species was formerly considered to be conspecific with the eastern yellow-billed barbet.

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Taxonomy

The western yellow-billed barbet was formally described in 1863 by the Dutch army officer and ornithologist Andreas Leopold August Goffin (1837–1863) under the binomial name Capito goffinii. The specimens had been collected by Cornelis Nagtglas in the Dutch Gold Coast (now part of Ghana). [2] [a] The western yellow-billed barbet is now placed with six other barbets in the genus Trachyphonus that was introduced in 1821 by the Italian naturalist Camillo Ranzani. [5] This species was formerly considered to be conspecific with the eastern yellow-billed barbet with the common name "yellow-billed barbet". The western yellow-billed barbet is now considered to be a separate species based on the differences in morphology and the deep mitochondrial DNA divergence. [5]

Two subspecies are recognised: [5]

Notes

  1. Although Goffin lists the species as "Capito goffinii Schlegel, in Mus. Batav.", there is no evidence that Hermann Schlegel was responsible for the description. [3] [4]

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References

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