Yellow-billed barbet

The yellow-billed barbet (Trachyphonus purpuratus) is a species of bird in the Lybiidae family.

Yellow-billed barbet
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Lybiidae
Genus: Trachyphonus
Species:
T. purpuratus
Binomial name
Trachyphonus purpuratus
Subspecies[2]
  • T. p. goffinii - (Goffin, 1863)
  • T. p. togoensis - (Reichenow, 1891)
  • T. p. purpuratus - Verreaux, J & Verreaux, E, 1851
  • T. p. elgonensis - Sharpe, 1891

It is found in Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Togo, and Uganda.

References
  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Trachylaemus purpuratus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. 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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