Double-toothed barbet

Double-toothed barbet
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Lybiidae
Genus: Lybius
Species: L. bidentatus
Binomial name
Lybius bidentatus
(Shaw, 1798)
Synonyms
  • Melanobucco aequatorialis

The double-toothed barbet (Lybius bidentatus) is a species of bird in the Lybiidae family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda.

Photographed at Entebbe, Uganda
Illustration by Keulemans, 1891

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