Black-throated barbet

Black-throated barbet
	Black-throated barbet (above), and pied barbet (below); illustration by Joseph Smit, 1891;
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Piciformes
Family:	Lybiidae
Genus:	Tricholaema
Species:	T. melanocephala
Binomial name
	Tricholaema melanocephala; (Cretzschmar, 1829)
Subspecies
	T. m. melanocephala – (Cretzschmar, 1829); T. m. blandi – Lort Phillips, 1897; T. m. stigmatothorax – Cabanis, 1878; T. m. flavibuccalis – Reichenow, 1893;
Synonyms
	Tricholaema stigmatothorax;

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. Its distribution has moved northward.

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