Lybius
Banded Barbet (Lybius undatus)
The range of this species extends throughout much of western and central Ethiopia, and north into western Eritrea.
Four subspecies are currently recognised, as follows:
L. u. thiogaster
L. u. undatus - photograph by
@Maguari
L. u. leucogenys
L. u. salvadorii
Vieillot's Barbet (Lybius vieilloti)
The range of this species extends throughout the Sahel and adjacent regions of sub-Saharan Africa, from southwest Mauritania and Sierra Leone in the west to Eritrea, southeast Sudan and south-central South Sudan in the east.
Three subspecies are currently recognised, as follows:
L. v. buchanani
L. v. rubescens
L. v. vieilloti
No photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.
White-headed Barbet (Lybius leucocephalus)
The range of this species extends in a patchy distribution of disjunct populations throughout central and eastern Africa; from north-central Nigeria and central Cameroon in the west, through southern Chad and the Central African Republic, to the extreme southwest of Sudan in the east; from central South Sudan in the north, through northwest DRC, Uganda, Kenya and northern Tanzania, to central Tanzania in the south; and in the highlands of southwest Angola.
Six subspecies are currently recognised, as follows:
L. l. leucocephalus
L. l. albicauda - photograph by
@Hix
L. l. lynesi
L. l. adamauae
L. l. senex - photograph by
@LaughingDove
L. l. leucogaster
Chaplin's Barbet (Lybius chaplini)
Endemic to a small region of south-central Zambia.
Monotypic; no photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.
Red-faced Barbet (Lybius rubrifacies)
Endemic to the Albertine Rift of southwest Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and northwest Tanzania.
Monotypic; no photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.
Black-billed Barbet (Lybius guifsobalito)
The range of this species extends patchily throughout much of eastern Africa, from southeast Sudan, Eritrea and northern Ethiopia in the north to northeast DRC, Uganda and northern Tanzania in the south; a disjunct population is present in northern Cameroon.
Monotypic.
Photograph by
@Maguari
Black-collared Barbet (Lybius torquatus)
The range of this species extends throughout much of eastern Africa, from east-central DRC and northwest Tanzania in the north, to Swaziland and eastern South Africa in the south, and also extending west through Zambia, Zimbabwe and northernmost Botswana into Angola and the extreme north of Namibia.
Seven subspecies are currently recognised, as follows:
L. t. pumilio
L. t. irroratus
L. t. zombae
L. t. congicus
L. t. vivacens
L. t. bocagei - photograph by
@Maguari
L. t. torquatus - photograph by
@GerbenElzinga
Brown-breasted Barbet (Lybius melanopterus)
The range of this species extends patchily throughout coastal East Africa from southern Somalia and east-central Kenya in the north, to northern Mozambique in the south.
Monotypic.
Photograph by
@gentle lemur
Black-backed Barbet (Lybius minor)
The range of this species extends throughout much of the Congo Basin and adjacent regions of Central Africa, from Gabon and southern Congo in the west to Burundi and northwest Tanzania in the east, and south to west-central and central Angola in the west and southeast Zambia in the east.
Two subspecies are currently recognised, as follows:
L. m. minor
L. m. macclounii
No photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.
Double-toothed Barbet (Lybius bidentatus)
The range of this species extends in a highly-fragmented and patchy distribution throughout coastal West Africa and the northern Congo Basin, from Guinea-Bissau and Guinea in the west to southeast South Sudan and central Ethiopia in the east, and through the western coastline of Central Africa from Nigeria and Cameroon in the north to northwest Angola in the south.
Two subspecies are currently recognised, as follows:
L. b. bidentatus
L. b. aequatorialis - photograph by
@Hix
Bearded Barbet (Lybius dubius)
The range of this species extends throughout much of West Africa, from Senegal in the north to Guinea in the south, and east to northeast Nigeria and northern Cameroon in the north and west-central Central African Republic in the south.
Monotypic.
Photograph by
@Maguari
Black-breasted Barbet (Lybius rolleti)
The range of this species is restricted to a small area of the central Sahel of sub-Saharan Africa, from southern Chad and north-central Central African Republic in the west to southern South Sudan and northern Uganda in the east.
Monotypic; no photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.
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