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Buccanodon
''Buccanodon'' is a bird genus in the African barbet family (Lybiidae) which was formerly included in the Capitonidae and sometimes in the Ramphastidae. It contains two species, both referred to as the yellow-spotted barbets. This genus was formerly considered a monotypic taxon just containing ''B. duchaillui'', but a study published in 2019 found populations west of the Dahomey Gap In West Africa, the Dahomey Gap refers to the portion of the Guinean forest-savanna mosaic that extends all the way to the coast in Benin, Togo, and Ghana, thus separating the forest zone that covers much of the south of the region into two separa ... to constitute a new, distinct species, ''B. dowsetti''. Both species are nearly identical and can only be reliably distinguished in the field by their songs and their distribution. Species References {{Taxonbar, from=Q5734788 Bird genera Barbets Taxa named by George Robert Gray ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buccanodon
''Buccanodon'' is a bird genus in the African barbet family (Lybiidae) which was formerly included in the Capitonidae and sometimes in the Ramphastidae. It contains two species, both referred to as the yellow-spotted barbets. This genus was formerly considered a monotypic taxon just containing ''B. duchaillui'', but a study published in 2019 found populations west of the Dahomey Gap In West Africa, the Dahomey Gap refers to the portion of the Guinean forest-savanna mosaic that extends all the way to the coast in Benin, Togo, and Ghana, thus separating the forest zone that covers much of the south of the region into two separa ... to constitute a new, distinct species, ''B. dowsetti''. Both species are nearly identical and can only be reliably distinguished in the field by their songs and their distribution. Species References {{Taxonbar, from=Q5734788 Bird genera Barbets Taxa named by George Robert Gray ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern Yellow-spotted Barbet
The eastern yellow-spotted barbet (''Buccanodon duchaillui'') is a bird species in the family Lybiidae. It was formerly considered the only species in the genus ''Buccanodon'', though studies have identified another species in the genus, the western yellow-spotted barbet (''B. dowsetti''). Prior to the description of ''B. dowsetti'', it was simply referred to as the yellow-spotted barbet. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea ( es, Guinea Ecuatorial; french: Guinée équatoriale; pt, Guiné Equatorial), officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea ( es, link=no, República de Guinea Ecuatorial, french: link=no, République de Guinée équatoria ..., Gabon, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda. Populations west of the Dahomey Gap, in West Africa, are now considered to belong to ''B. dowsetti'' instead. References eastern yellow-spotted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buccanodon Duchaillui
The eastern yellow-spotted barbet (''Buccanodon duchaillui'') is a bird species in the family Lybiidae. It was formerly considered the only species in the genus ''Buccanodon'', though studies have identified another species in the genus, the western yellow-spotted barbet (''B. dowsetti''). Prior to the description of ''B. dowsetti'', it was simply referred to as the yellow-spotted barbet. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda. Populations west of the Dahomey Gap, in West Africa, are now considered to belong to ''B. dowsetti'' instead. References eastern yellow-spotted barbet Birds of Central Africa Birds of the African tropical rainforest eastern yellow-spotted barbet The eastern yellow-spotted barbet (''Buccanodon duchaillui'') is a bird species in the family Lybiidae. It was formerly considered the only spec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buccanodon Dowsetti
The western yellow-spotted barbet (''Buccanodon dowsetti'') is a bird species in the family Lybiidae. It is distributed in West Africa west of the Dahomey Gap, where it is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. It was formerly considered conspecific with the eastern yellow-spotted barbet (''B. duchaillui''), but was split from it on account of their differing songs. The western yellow-spotted barbet has a song described by Nigel James Collar and Peter Boesman as "a series of 7–10 accelerating notes similar to a song of hairy-breasted barbet The hairy-breasted barbet (''Tricholaema hirsuta'') is a species of bird in the family Lybiidae. It is found throughout the Tropical forest, Africa tropical rainforest. Taxonomy The species was described as ''Pogonias hirsutus'' by William John ... (''Tricholaema hirsuta'')" (phoneticized as "''oop''"), while the eastern yellow-spotted barbet has a song described by Collar and Boesman as a "characteristic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Yellow-spotted Barbet
The western yellow-spotted barbet (''Buccanodon dowsetti'') is a bird species in the family Lybiidae. It is distributed in West Africa west of the Dahomey Gap, where it is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. It was formerly considered conspecific with the eastern yellow-spotted barbet (''B. duchaillui''), but was split from it on account of their differing songs. The western yellow-spotted barbet has a song described by Nigel James Collar and Peter Boesman as "a series of 7–10 accelerating notes similar to a song of hairy-breasted barbet The hairy-breasted barbet (''Tricholaema hirsuta'') is a species of bird in the family Lybiidae. It is found throughout the Tropical forest, Africa tropical rainforest. Taxonomy The species was described as ''Pogonias hirsutus'' by William John ... (''Tricholaema hirsuta'')" (phoneticized as "''oop''"), while the eastern yellow-spotted barbet has a song described by Collar and Boesman as a "characteristic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lybiidae
The African barbets are birds in the family Lybiidae. There are 43 species ranging from the type genus ''Lybius'' of forest interior to the tinkerbirds (''Pogoniulus'') of forest and scrubland. They are found throughout sub-Saharan Africa, with the exception of the far south-west of South Africa. The African terrestrial barbets, Trachyphoninae, range from the southern Sahara to South Africa. Members of one genus, ''Trachyphonus'', are the most open-country species of barbets. The subfamily Lybiinae contains the African arboreal barbets. There are 37 species of Lybiinae in 6 genera. Description and ecology Most African barbets are about long, plump-looking, with large heads, and their heavy bill is fringed with bristles; the tinkerbirds are smaller, ranging down to the red-rumped tinkerbird (''Pogoniulus atroflavus'') at and . They are mainly solitary birds, eating insects and fruit. Figs and numerous other species of fruiting tree and bush are visited. An individual barbet may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Robert Gray
George Robert Gray FRS (8 July 1808 – 6 May 1872) was an English zoologist and author, and head of the ornithological section of the British Museum, now the Natural History Museum, in London for forty-one years. He was the younger brother of the zoologist John Edward Gray and the son of the botanist Samuel Frederick Gray. George Gray's most important publication was his ''Genera of Birds'' (1844–49), illustrated by David William Mitchell and Joseph Wolf, which included 46,000 references. Biography He was born in Little Chelsea, London, to Samuel Frederick Gray, naturalist and pharmacologist, and Elizabeth (née Forfeit), his wife. He was educated at Merchant Taylor's School. Gray started at the British Museum as Assistant Keeper of the Zoology Branch in 1831. He began by cataloguing insects, and published an ''Entomology of Australia'' (1833) and contributed the entomogical section to an English edition of Georges Cuvier's ''Animal Kingdom''. Gray described many spec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bird Genera
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton. Birds live worldwide and range in size from the bee hummingbird to the ostrich. There are about ten thousand living species, more than half of which are passerine, or "perching" birds. Birds have whose development varies according to species; the only known groups without wings are the extinct moa and elephant birds. Wings, which are modified forelimbs, gave birds the ability to fly, although further evolution has led to the loss of flight in some birds, including ratites, penguins, and diverse endemic island species. The digestive and respiratory systems of birds are also uniquely adapted for flight. Some bird species of aquatic environments, particularly seabirds and some waterbirds, have further evolved for swimming. Bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monotypic Taxon
In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispecific" or "monospecific" is sometimes preferred. In botanical nomenclature, a monotypic genus is a genus in the special case where a genus and a single species are simultaneously described. In contrast, an oligotypic taxon contains more than one but only a very few subordinate taxa. Examples Just as the term ''monotypic'' is used to describe a taxon including only one subdivision, the contained taxon can also be referred to as monotypic within the higher-level taxon, e.g. a genus monotypic within a family. Some examples of monotypic groups are: Plants * In the order Amborellales, there is only one family, Amborellaceae and there is only one genus, '' Amborella'', and in this genus there is only one species, namely ''Amborella trichopoda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dahomey Gap
In West Africa, the Dahomey Gap refers to the portion of the Guinean forest-savanna mosaic that extends all the way to the coast in Benin, Togo, and Ghana, thus separating the forest zone that covers much of the south of the region into two separate parts. The forest region west of the gap is called the Upper Guinean forests or Guinean forest zone, and the portion east of the gap is called the Lower Guinean forests, Lower Guinean-Congolian forests, or Congolian Forest Zone. The major city in the Gap is Accra. Several other cities, such as Kumasi, exist on the fringe of the Gap. Causes of dryness The dryness of the Dahomey Gap is unusual, given that it lies surrounded by a very wet monsoon belt on all sides, and no mountains block moisture. Yet, Accra, which is in the heart of the Gap, receives only of rainfall per year — less than half the amount needed to sustain tropical rainforest (which would be expected at a latitude of 6° N). The cause of the dryness of the Dahomey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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