Tricholaema

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.

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

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

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
Tricholaema hirsutaHairy-breasted barbetAngola, 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
Tricholaema diademataRed-fronted barbetEthiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Tricholaema frontataMiombo pied barbetcentral Angola, the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Malawi, southwest Tanzania, and Zambia
Tricholaema leucomelasAcacia pied barbetAngola, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Tricholaema lacrymosaSpot-flanked barbetBurundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.
Tricholaema melanocephalaBlack-throated barbetDjibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.

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.


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