Brown-breasted Barbet
Pogonornis melanopterus(Peters, WKH, 1854)
English (US) Brown-breasted Barbet
The Brown-breasted Barbet (Pogonornis melanopterus) 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 Lybiidae (African Barbets) in the order Piciformes.
Range: savanna of southern Somalia to Kenya, southeastern Malawi, and northern MozambiqueRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Pogonornis melanopterus
- Order
- Piciformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Brown-breasted Barbet
- Described by
- (Peters, WKH, 1854)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Pogonias (Laimodon) melanopterus
- Described by
- (Peters, WKH, 1854)
- Type locality
- Mocimboa, Mozambique.
- Original description
- Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin p.134
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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