Crested Barbet

Crested Barbet / Trachyphonus vaillantii

Crested Barbet

Here the details of the Crested Barbet named bird below:

SCI Name:  Trachyphonus vaillantii
Protonym:  Trachyphonus Vaillantii Elem.Zool. 3 pt2 p.159
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Lybiidae /
Taxonomy Code:  crebar1
Type Locality:  South Africa ex LeVaillant = southeastern Cape Province, fide Vincent, Bull. Brit. Orn. CI, 55, 1935, p. 94.)
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Publish Year:  1821
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DEFINITIONS

TRACHYPHONUS
(Lybiidae; Ϯ Crested Barbet T. vaillantii) Gr. τραχυφωνος trakhuphōnos  harsh-voiced  < τραχυς trakhus  rough; φωνη phōnē  sound, cry  < φωνεω phōneō  to call (cf. φωνος phōnos  loud-voiced); "Trachifono, Trachyphonus (1)   ...   (1) Da τραχυφωνος — che ha voce aspra.   ...   Sp. unica: Trachifono di Vaillant, Trachyphonus Vaillantii.  Le Promépic franc.   ...   Il grido è cral, cral, cral." (Ranzani 1821); "Trachyphonus Ranzani, Elem. di Zool., 3, 1821, pt. 2, p. 157. Type, by monotypy, Trachyphonus vaillantii Ranzani." (Peters 1948, VI, 60).
Synon. CapitonidesCucupicus, Micropogon, Murututtu, Polysticte, Promepicus, Tamatia.

vaillanti / vaillantii
● François Levaillant (1753-1824) French ornithologist, explorer, collector (syn. Anhinga melanogaster, syn. Cyanopica cyanus, syn. Halcyon albiventris, syn. Merops superciliosus, syn. Motacilla aguimp, syn. Phigys solitarius, syn. Seleucidis melanoleucusTrachyphonus (ex “Promépic” of Levaillant 1813, pl. 32), syn. Zosterops virens capensis) (see levaillanti).
● Commandant Jean Jacques Rousseau Levaillant (1790-1876) French Army in Algeria (Picus).

SUBSPECIES

Crested Barbet (suahelicus)
SCI Name: Trachyphonus vaillantii suahelicus
suahelensis / suahelica / suahelicum / suahelicus / suahelicuus
Swahili, originally a name given to the peoples of Zanzibar and the adjacent mainland coast  < Arabic sawāhil  coasts.

Crested Barbet (vaillantii)
SCI Name: Trachyphonus vaillantii vaillantii
vaillanti / vaillantii
● François Levaillant (1753-1824) French ornithologist, explorer, collector (syn. Anhinga melanogaster, syn. Cyanopica cyanus, syn. Halcyon albiventris, syn. Merops superciliosus, syn. Motacilla aguimp, syn. Phigys solitarius, syn. Seleucidis melanoleucusTrachyphonus (ex “Promépic” of Levaillant 1813, pl. 32), syn. Zosterops virens capensis) (see levaillanti).
● Commandant Jean Jacques Rousseau Levaillant (1790-1876) French Army in Algeria (Picus).