D'Arnaud's Barbet

SCI Name:  Trachyphonus darnaudii
Protonym:  Micropogon darnaudii Voy.Abyssinie[Lefebvre] 3 p.133
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Lybiidae / Trachyphonus
Taxonomy Code:  darbar1
Type Locality:  Kordofan.
Author:  Prévost & Des Murs
Publish Year:  1847
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

TRACHYPHONUS
(Lybiidae; Ϯ Crested Barbet T. vaillantii) Gr. τραχυφωνος trakhuphōnos  harsh-voiced  < τραχυς trakhus  rough; φωνη phōnē  sound, cry  < φωνεω phōneō  to call (cf. φωνος phōnos  loud-voiced); "Trachifono, Trachyphonus (1)   ...   (1) Da τραχυφωνος — che ha voce aspra.   ...   Sp. unica: Trachifono di Vaillant, Trachyphonus Vaillantii.  Le Promépic franc.   ...   Il grido è cral, cral, cral." (Ranzani 1821); "Trachyphonus Ranzani, Elem. di Zool., 3, 1821, pt. 2, p. 157. Type, by monotypy, Trachyphonus vaillantii Ranzani." (Peters 1948, VI, 60).
Synon. Capitonides, Cucupicus, Micropogon, Murututtu, Polysticte, Promepicus, Tamatia.

darnaudii
Lt.-Col. Joseph-Pons d’Arnaud Bey (1811-1884) French civil engineer in Egyptian service 1831 (where given the Ottoman honorific 'Bey' by Mehmet Ali Pasha), explorer in Sudan and Abyssinia 1839-1860  (Trachyphonus).

SUBSPECIES

D'Arnaud's Barbet (D'Arnaud's)
SCI Name: Trachyphonus darnaudii darnaudii/boehmi
TRACHYPHONUS
(Lybiidae; Ϯ Crested Barbet T. vaillantii) Gr. τραχυφωνος trakhuphōnos  harsh-voiced  < τραχυς trakhus  rough; φωνη phōnē  sound, cry  < φωνεω phōneō  to call (cf. φωνος phōnos  loud-voiced); "Trachifono, Trachyphonus (1)   ...   (1) Da τραχυφωνος — che ha voce aspra.   ...   Sp. unica: Trachifono di Vaillant, Trachyphonus Vaillantii.  Le Promépic franc.   ...   Il grido è cral, cral, cral." (Ranzani 1821); "Trachyphonus Ranzani, Elem. di Zool., 3, 1821, pt. 2, p. 157. Type, by monotypy, Trachyphonus vaillantii Ranzani." (Peters 1948, VI, 60).
Synon. Capitonides, Cucupicus, Micropogon, Murututtu, Polysticte, Promepicus, Tamatia.

D'Arnaud's Barbet (Usambiro)
SCI Name: Trachyphonus darnaudii usambiro
usambiro
Usambiro, German East Africa (=Tanzania).

D'Arnaud's Barbet (Black-capped)
SCI Name: Trachyphonus darnaudii emini
emini
Mehmet Emin Bey, later Emin Pasha, the adopted name of Dr Eduard Carl Oscar Theodor Schnitzer (1840-1892) German administrator in the Ottoman service, Pasha of Equatorial Province, Egyptian Sudan 1878-1889, physician, naturalist, collector, murdered by Arab slave-traders (subsp. Agapornis swindernianus, subsp. Argya rubiginosa, syn. Aviceda cuculoides verreauxi, subsp. Cecropis daurica, subsp. Cisticola aberrans, syn. Cisticola chiniana humilis, syn. Cisticola woosnami, syn. Coturnix adansonii, subsp. Criniger calurus, syn. Glareola nuchalis, subsp. Lamprotornis chalcurus, subsp. Ploceus baglafecht, syn. Prodotiscus insignis, syn. Pseudonigrita arnaudi dorsalis, syn. Pterocles exustus, syn. Pternistis icterorhynchus, syn. Ptilopachus petrosus, subsp. Pytilia phoenicoptera, subsp. Rhinopomastus aterrimus, subsp. Rhinoptilus cinctus, subsp. Salpornis salvadori, subsp. Sporopipes frontalis, subsp. Tauraco schuettii, subsp. Tchagra australis, subsp. Terpsiphone rufiventer, Trachyphonus, subsp. Turdoides jardineii).
● See: eminibey