Black-throated barbet

Black-throated barbet
Black-throated barbet (above), and pied barbet (below); illustration by Joseph Smit, 1891
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Lybiidae
Genus: Tricholaema
Species:
T. melanocephala
Binomial name
Tricholaema melanocephala
(Cretzschmar, 1829)
Subspecies
  • T. m. melanocephala – (Cretzschmar, 1829)
  • T. m. blandi – Lort Phillips, 1897
  • T. m. stigmatothorax – Cabanis, 1878
  • T. m. flavibuccalis – Reichenow, 1893
Synonyms
  • Tricholaema stigmatothorax

The black-throated barbet (Tricholaema melanocephala) is a species of bird in the Lybiidae family. It is found in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its distribution has moved northward.