Anchieta's barbet

Anchieta's barbet
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Lybiidae
Genus: Stactolaema
Species: S. anchietae
Binomial name
Stactolaema anchietae
(Barboza du Bocage, 1869)

The Anchieta's barbet (Stactolaema anchietae) is a species of bird in the Lybiidae family.

It is found in Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Zambia.

It is named after the Portuguese naturalist and explorer José Alberto de Oliveira Anchieta.

Illustration by Keulemans

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