Naked-faced Barbet / Gymnobucco calvus

Naked-faced Barbet / Gymnobucco calvus

Naked-faced Barbet

SCI Name:  Gymnobucco calvus
Protonym:  Bucco calvus Rev.Zool. 4 p.241
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Lybiidae /
Taxonomy Code:  nafbar1
Type Locality:  Locality unknown := Ashanti.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1841
IUCN Status:  

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.

calvus
L. calvus  bald.
● ex “Courlis à tête nue du Cap de Bonne-Espérance” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 867 (Geronticus).
● ex “Courlis à tête nue du Cap de Bonne-Espérance” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 867, “Courlis à tête nue” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Bald Ibis” of Latham 1785 (syn. Geronticus calvus).
● ex “Choucas chauve de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 521, and “Bald Crow” of Latham 1781 (syn. Perissocephalus tricolor).
● ex “Vautour royal de Pondicherry” of Sonnerat 1782 (Sarcogyps).
● ex “Merle chauve des Philippines” of Brisson 1760 (Sarcops).

SUBSPECIES

Naked-faced Barbet (Naked-faced)
SCI Name: Gymnobucco calvus calvus/congicus
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.

Naked-faced Barbet (Pale-throated)
SCI Name: Gymnobucco calvus vernayi
vernayi / verneyi
Arthur Stannard Vernay (1877-1960) English/US antiquarian, collector, sponsor, Trustee of AMNH (subsp. Alauda gulgula, subsp. Cecropis daurica, subsp. Cyornis poliogenys, subsp. Dendrocitta vagabunda, Gymnobucco, subsp. Leiothrix argentauris, subsp. Lonchura kelaarti, subsp. Rhipidura albogularis, subsp. Tephrodornis virgatus).