Naked-faced barbet
| Naked-faced barbet | |
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| male (left) and female (right) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Lybiidae |
| Genus: | Gymnobucco |
| Species: | G. calvus |
| Binomial name | |
| Gymnobucco calvus (Lafresnaye, 1841) | |
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The naked-faced barbet (Gymnobucco calvus) is a bird species in the family Lybiidae (the African barbets). It used to be placed in the family Bucconidae (puffbirds), which has been split up; alternatively, it may be included in a vastly expanded Ramphastidae (toucans).
It is found in Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, DRC, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Togo.
References
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Gymnobucco calvus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22726016A94909149. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22726016A94909149.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Gill F, D Donsker & P Rasmussen (Eds). 2020. IOC World Bird List (v10.2). doi : 10.14344/IOC.ML.10.2.