Black-throated barbet

Black-throated barbet
	Black-throated barbet (above), and pied barbet (below); illustration by Joseph Smit, 1891;
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Piciformes
Family:	Lybiidae
Genus:	Tricholaema
Species:	T. melanocephala
Binomial name
	Tricholaema melanocephala; (Cretzschmar, 1826)
Subspecies[2]
	T. m. melanocephala - (Cretzschmar, 1829); T. m. blandi - Lort Phillips, 1897; T. m. stigmatothorax - Cabanis, 1878; T. m. flavibuccalis - Reichenow, 1893;
Synonyms
	Tricholaema stigmatothorax;

The black-throated barbet (Tricholaema melanocephala) is a species of bird in the Lybiidae family. It is found in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.

References

BirdLife International (2012). "Tricholaema melanocephala". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)old-form url
Gill F, D Donsker & P Rasmussen (Eds). 2020. IOC World Bird List (v10.2). doi : 10.14344/IOC.ML.10.2.

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