Ramphastides

Ramphastides is an infraorder of the order Piciformes that includes toucans and barbets. Formerly, the barbets have been classified in a single family, the Capitonidae.^[1] However, this has turned out to be paraphyletic with regard to toucans, which resulted in the Capitonidae being split into several families.^[2][3]

Barbets
Toco toucan (Ramphastos toco)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Piciformes
Suborder:	Pici
Infraorder:	Ramphastides Vigors, 1825
Families
Megalaimidae Lybiidae Capitonidae Ramphastidae Semnornithidae

Systematics

The Ramphastides contain five extant families. Sometimes, they are treated as the superfamily Ramphastoidea.^[4]

• Infraorder Ramphastides
  • Megalaimidae - Asian barbets
  • Lybiidae - African barbets
  • Capitonidae - New World barbets
  • Semnornithidae - toucan-barbets
  • Ramphastidae - toucans