| Trachyphonus | |
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| Red-and-yellow barbet Trachyphonus erythrocephalus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Lybiidae |
| Subfamily: | Trachyphoninae |
| Genus: | Trachyphonus Ranzani, 1821 |
| Type species | |
| Trachyphonus vaillantii Ranzani, 1821[1]
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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 the subfamily Trachyphoninae.
Taxonomy
The genus Trachyphonus was introduced in 1821 by the Italian naturalist Camillo Ranzani to accommodate a single species, Trachyphonus vaillantii, the crested barbet. This is the type species.[2][3] The genus name is from Ancient Greek τραχυφωνος/trakhuphōnos meaning "harsh-voiced", from τραχυς/trakhus meaning "rough" and φωνη/phōnē meaning "sound" or "cry".[4]
The genus contains four species:[5]
| Image | Common name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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Crested barbet | Trachyphonus vaillantii | Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. |
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Yellow-breasted barbet | Trachyphonus margaritatus | Burkina Faso, Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, and Sudan. |
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Red-and-yellow barbet | Trachyphonus erythrocephalus | Kenya to north-east Tanzania. |
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D'Arnaud's barbet | Trachyphonus darnaudii | West Africa |
Extinct taxa
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 in this genus,[6] 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.[7]
References
- ^ Dickinson, E.C.; Remsen, J.V. Jr., eds. (2013). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Vol. 1: Non-passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 327. ISBN 978-0-9568611-0-8.
- ^ Ranzani, Camillo (1821). Elementi di Zoologia (in Italian). Vol. 3, Part 2. Bologna: Per le stampe di Annesio Nobili. pp. 157–160.
- ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1948). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 6. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 60.
- ^ Jobling, James A. "Trachyphonus". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 22 January 2026.
- ^ AviList Core Team (2025). "AviList: The Global Avian Checklist, v2025". doi:10.2173/avilist.v2025. Retrieved 22 January 2026.
- ^ Mlíkovský, Jirí (2002): Cenozoic Birds of the World, Part 1: Europe. Ninox Press, Prague. ISBN 80-901105-3-8
{{isbn}}: ignored ISBN errors (link) PDF fulltext Archived 2011-05-20 at the Wayback Machine - ^ Ballmann, Peter (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)
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