| Black-throated barbet | |
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Black-throated barbet (above), and pied barbet (below); illustration by Joseph Smit, 1891 |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Lybiidae |
| Genus: | Tricholaema |
| Species: | T. melanocephala |
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Tricholaema melanocephala (Cretzschmar, 1826) |
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The black-throated barbet (Tricholaema melanocephala) is a species of bird in the Lybiidae family. It is found in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.