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Western Yellow-billed Barbet
Trachylaemus goffinii (Goffin, 1863)
Lybiidae — African Barbets
Western Yellow-billed Barbet, Trachylaemus goffinii, is a bird of the African barbet family Lybiidae that breeds from Sierra Leone to south-west Nigeria. It was first described in 1863 by Goffin. It is now treated as a separate species from the eastern yellow-billed barbet, after once being classed with it as one species. Two subspecies are recognised: T. g. goffinii from Sierra Leone to Ghana, and T. g. togoensis from Togo to south-west Nigeria.
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Lybiidae — African Barbets
- Breeding range
- Africa: Sierra Leone to sw Nigeria
