Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird

SCI Name:  Pogoniulus chrysoconus
Protonym:  Bucco chrysoconus Pl.Col. livr.90 pl.536 fig.2
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Lybiidae / Pogoniulus
Taxonomy Code:  yeftin1
Type Locality:  Galam, Senegal.
Author:  Temminck
Publish Year:  1832
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

POGONIULUS
(Lybiidae; Ϯ Red-fronted Tinkerbird P. pusillus) Dim. < genus Pogonias Illiger, 1811, barbet; "BARBION (Pogoniulus, Nob.) ayant pour type le Barbion de Levaillant (Bucco parvus Gmel.)" (de La Fresnaye 1843); "Pogoniulus Lafresnaye, Dict. Univ. Hist. Nat., 2, 1844 (1842), p. 463. Type, by original designation, Barbion de Levaillant (Bucco parvus Gmel.) [i.e. Bucco parvus auct., not of Gmelin] = Bucco pusillus Dumont.²   ...   ² Bucco nanus Boddaert, 1783, and Bucco parvus Gmelin, 1788, are based chiefly on the "Barbu du Sénégal" of Daubenton, Pl. enlum. no. 746, f. 1.  I am unable to reocognize in Daubenton's figure any of the so-called African "tinker birds"; nor are either of the names based on his figure in current use." (Peters 1948, VI, 44).
Var. Pogoniolus.
Synon. Barbatula, Barbatulides, Lignobucco, Microbucco, Micropogonius, Viridibucco, Xylobucco.

chrysoconus
Gr. χρυσος khrusos  gold; κωνος kōnos  peak of a helmet (cf. “In Latin, conus = cone, but should have been comus = hair, a mistake in the original naming” (Hockey et al. 2005)) (Pogoniulus).

SUBSPECIES

Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird (chrysoconus)
SCI Name: Pogoniulus chrysoconus chrysoconus
chrysoconus
Gr. χρυσος khrusos  gold; κωνος kōnos  peak of a helmet (cf. “In Latin, conus = cone, but should have been comus = hair, a mistake in the original naming” (Hockey et al. 2005)) (Pogoniulus).

Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird (xanthostictus)
SCI Name: Pogoniulus chrysoconus xanthostictus
xanthosticta / xanthostictus
Gr. ξανθος xanthos  yellow; στικτος stiktos  spotted  < στιζω stizō  to tattoo.

Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird (extoni)
SCI Name: Pogoniulus chrysoconus extoni
extoni
Dr Hugh Exton (1833-1903) English physician, emigrated to South Africa 1861, geologist, anthropologist, collector, first President of South African Geological Society (subsp. Pogoniulus chrysoconus).