Buccanodon

Buccanodon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Piciformes
Family:	Lybiidae
Genus:	Buccanodon; G.R. Gray, 1855
Species
	Buccanodon duchaillui; Buccanodon dowsetti;

Buccanodon is a bird genus in the African barbet family (Lybiidae) which was formerly included in the Capitonidae and sometimes in the Ramphastidae. It contains two species, both referred to as the yellow-spotted barbets.

This genus was formerly considered a monotypic taxon just containing B. duchaillui, but a study published in 2019 found populations west of the Dahomey Gap to constitute a new, distinct species, B. dowsetti. Both species are nearly identical and can only be reliably distinguished in the field by their songs and their distribution.[1][2]

Species

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Buccanodon duchaillui	Eastern yellow-spotted barbet	Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda
	Buccanodon dowsetti	Western yellow-spotted barbet	Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone

References

"ITIS Standard Report Page: Buccanodon". www.itis.gov. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
Collar, N. J.; Boesman, Peter (June 2019). "Two undescribed species of bird from West Africa". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 139 (2): 147–159. doi:10.25226/bboc.v139i2.2019.a7. ISSN 0007-1595.

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[1] "ITIS Standard Report Page: Buccanodon". www.itis.gov. Retrieved 2019-07-22.

[2] Collar, N. J.; Boesman, Peter (June 2019). "Two undescribed species of bird from West Africa". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 139 (2): 147–159. doi:10.25226/bboc.v139i2.2019.a7. ISSN 0007-1595.