Whyte's barbet
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| Species: | S. whytii
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| Stactolaema whytii (Shelley, 1893)
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The Whyte's barbet (Stactolaema whytii) is a species of bird in the Lybiidae family (African barbets). It is found in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the naturalist Alexander Whyte, who collected in what is now Malawi.[2]
References
- ^ Template:IUCN
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 366.
External links
- Whyte's barbet - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds
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