Prong-billed Barbet
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| Semnornis frantzii (Sclater, 1864) |
The Prong-billed Barbet Semnornis frantzii is a distinctive Neotropical bird.
It often has been united with the other barbets in the Capitonidae. However, DNA studies[citation needed] have confirmed that this arrangement is paraphyletic (the toucans are more closely related to the New World Barbets than the latter are to barbets of the Old World). As a result, the barbet lineages are again considered distinct families ; the Prong-billed Barbet and the Toucan Barbet now form a separate family, Semnornithidae.
The binomial commemorates the German naturalist Alexander von Frantzius.
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- ^ BirdLife International (2004). Semnornis frantzii. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
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