| Green Barbet | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Lybiidae |
| Genus: | Stactolaema |
| Species: | S. olivacea |
| Binomial name | |
| Stactolaema olivacea (Shelley, 1880) |
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The Green Barbet (Stactolaema olivacea) is a species of bird in the Lybiidae family. It is found in Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa.[1]
The southern-most race S. o. woodwardi, or Woodward's Barbet, is endemic to Ongoye Forest in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is named for its discoverers, the Woodward brothers.