Trachyphonus

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.

Trachyphonus
Red-and-yellow barbet Trachyphonus erythrocephalus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Piciformes
Family:	Lybiidae
Subfamily:	Trachyphoninae
Genus:	Trachyphonus Ranzani, 1821
Type species
Trachyphonus vaillantii Ranzani, 1821[1]

Species in taxonomic sequence

The genus contains five species:^[2]

Image	Common Name	Scientific name	Distribution
	Crested barbet	Trachyphonus vaillantii	Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
	Yellow-breasted barbet	Trachyphonus margaritatus	Burkina Faso, Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, and Sudan.
	Red-and-yellow barbet	Trachyphonus erythrocephalus	l Kenya to north-east Tanzania.
	D'Arnaud's barbet	Trachyphonus darnaudii	West Africa
	Usambiro barbet	Trachyphonus usambiro	Kenya and northern Tanzania,

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,^[3] 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.^[4]