Black-spotted Barbet
Capito niger(Müller, PLS, 1776)
English (US) Black-spotted Barbet
The Black-spotted Barbet (Capito niger) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Capitonidae (New World Barbets) in the order Piciformes.
Range: eastern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northeastern Brazil north of the AmazonRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Capito niger
- Order
- Piciformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Black-spotted Barbet
- Described by
- (Müller, PLS, 1776)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Bucco niger
- Described by
- (Müller, PLS, 1776)
- Type locality
- No locality i=: Cayenne, ex Buffon.
- Original description
- Des Ritters Carl von Linné ... vollständigen Natursystems Supplements- und Register-Band über alle sechs Theile oder Classen des Thierreichs p.89
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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