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Crested Barbet
Trachyphonus vaillantii · Family Lybiidae
Trachyphonus vaillantii
Family Lybiidae
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Lybiidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 241,897
- Countries and territories with records
- 20
About this species
This species has 241,897 occurrence records from 20 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (89.4%), Zimbabwe (3.9%) and Botswana (2.8%); together they account for 96.2% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.54% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Trachyphonus vaillantii combines the genus name Trachyphonus with the species epithet vaillantii. The Warbla app catalog lists 4 species of the genus Trachyphonus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Trachyphonus darnaudii, Trachyphonus erythrocephalus and Trachyphonus margaritatus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 39 species of the family Lybiidae. This species ranks 2nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Lybius torquatus. Its record count is 8.5 times the family average (28,467). The family Lybiidae belongs to the order Piciformes, which has 424 species in the Warbla app catalog.