Sladen’s Barbet / Gymnobucco sladeni
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Sladen's Barbet
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Protonym: Gymnobucco sladeni Bull.Br.Orn.Club 19 p.42
Taxonomy: Piciformes / Lybiidae / Gymnobucco
Taxonomy Code: slabar1
Type Locality: Mawambi, Congo Forest.
Author: Ogilvie-Grant
Publish Year: 1907
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
GYMNOBUCCO
(Lybiidae; Ϯ Naked -faced Barbet G. calvus) Gr. γυμνος gumnos bare, naked; genus Bucco Temminck, 1820, barbet (see Bucco); "*274. Gymnobucco, Bp. (Bucco, p. Temm.) Africa occid. 1. * BUCCO calvus, Mus. Lugd. an Lafresn? (Megalaima calva? Gr.) ex Ashantea. Long. 6-poll: fuliginoso-cinereus; capite cum genis implume: penicillis setarum rigidarum duobus rufescentium ad rostri latera, duobus hinc inde mandibulae, altero subtus antrorsum verso. Rostrum albidum." (Bonaparte 1850); "Gymnobucco Bonaparte, Consp. Av., 1, 1850, p. 141. Type, by monotypy, Bucco calvus Lafresnaye." (Peters, 1948, VI, p. 41).
Synon. Gymnocranus, Heliobucco, Phalacrobucco.
sladeni
● Maj. A. G. Lambert Sladen (1880-1960) British Army, ornithologist, collector in the Congo 1906 (Gymnobucco).
● Walter Percy Sladen (1849-1900) English zoologist, philanthropist (syn. Phasianus colchicus elegans, subsp. Turdus poliocephalus).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
