Avibase: Buccanodon duchaillui dowsetti (Yellow-spotted Barbet (dowsetti))

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Yellow-spotted Barbet (dowsetti)

Buccanodon duchaillui dowsetti Boesman, P; Collar, NJ 2019

The western yellow-spotted barbet is a bird species in the family Lybiidae. It is distributed in West Africa west of the Dahomey Gap, where it is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Source: Wikipedia

Classification

Order:
  Piciformes
Family:
  Ramphastidae
Genus:
   Buccanodon
Scientific:
  Buccanodon duchaillui dowsetti

Original description

Citation:
Boesman, P; Collar, NJ 2019

Reference:
Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 139, no.2 p.156 [147-159]

Protonym:
Buccanodon dowsetti

Type locality:
Grassfield, Mt. Nimba, Liberia, 550 m, 24 August 1967, collected by A. D. Forbes-Watson

Link:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333826861

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
E4FC7AB96C19C5A3

Avibase ID:
avibase-E4FC7AB9

Short link:
https://avibase.ca/E4FC7AB9

Taxonomic Serial Number:

Geographic range:

Buccanodon duchaillui dowsetti: Sierra Leone to southern Ghana

Source: Clements checklist

English:
Yellow-spotted Barbet (dowsetti)
French:
Barbican à taches jaunes (dowsetti)

Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:

Avibase taxonomic concepts (current): Yellow-spotted Barbet (dowsetti) ( Buccanodon duchaillui dowsetti)
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023): Western Yellow-spotted Barbet ( Buccanodon dowsetti) [version 1]
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024): Yellow-spotted Barbet (dowsetti) ( Buccanodon duchaillui dowsetti)
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2025 (Nov 2025): Yellow-spotted Barbet (dowsetti) ( Buccanodon duchaillui dowsetti)
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020): Western Yellow-spotted Barbet ( Buccanodon dowsetti) [version 1]
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021): Western Yellow-spotted Barbet ( Buccanodon dowsetti) [version 1]
Avilist 2025: Buccanodon duchaillui dowsetti [version 1]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v5 (Dec 2020): Western Yellow-spotted Barbet ( Buccanodon dowsetti) [version 1]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v6 (Dec 2021): Western Yellow-spotted Barbet ( Buccanodon dowsetti) [version 1]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v6b (Jul 2022): Western Yellow-spotted Barbet ( Buccanodon dowsetti) [version 1]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v7 (Dec 2022): Western Yellow-spotted Barbet ( Buccanodon dowsetti) [version 1]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v8 (Dec 2023): Western Yellow-spotted Barbet ( Buccanodon dowsetti) [version 1]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v9 (Oct 2024): Western Yellow-spotted Barbet ( Buccanodon dowsetti) [version 1]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v10 (Oct 2025): Western Yellow-spotted Barbet ( Buccanodon dowsetti) [version 1]
Clements, version 2023: Buccanodon duchaillui dowsetti [version 1]
Clements, version 2024: Buccanodon duchaillui dowsetti [version 1]
Clements, version 2025: Buccanodon duchaillui dowsetti [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 13.2: Buccanodon duchaillui dowsetti [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 14.1: Buccanodon duchaillui dowsetti [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 14.2: Buccanodon duchaillui dowsetti [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 15.1: Buccanodon duchaillui dowsetti [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 15.2: Buccanodon duchaillui dowsetti [version 1]

Taxonomic status:

Species status: subspecies

This taxon is a subspecies of Buccanodon duchaillui

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