List of New World barbets

New World barbets are birds in the family Capitonidae in the order Piciformes.^[1] The New World barbets are plump birds, with short necks and large heads. Most species are brightly coloured, with bold patterns of mainly green, red, yellow, white, or black. Their rictal bristles (stiff hair-like feathers at the base of the beak) are shorter and less dense than those of the Asian and African barbets. They are native to the Neotropics of South and Central America, where they inhabit a variety of forests.^[2]

There are currently 15 extant species of New World barbets recognised by the International Ornithologists' Union.^[1]

IUCN Red List categories
Conservation status
EX	Extinct (0 species)
EW	Extinct in the wild (0 species)
CR	Critically endangered (0 species)
EN	Endangered (0 species)
VU	Vulnerable (3 species)
NT	Near threatened (2 species)
LC	Least concern (8 species)

Conservation status codes listed follow the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. Range maps are provided wherever possible; if a range map is not available, a description of the barbet's range is provided. Ranges are based on the IOC World Bird List for that species unless otherwise noted. Population estimates are of the number of mature individuals and are taken from the IUCN Red List.

This list follows the taxonomic treatment (designation and order of species) and nomenclature (scientific and common names) of version 13.2 of the IOC World Bird List.^[1] Where the taxonomy proposed by the IOC World Bird List conflicts with the taxonomy followed by the IUCN^[a] or the 2023 edition of The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World,^[4] the disagreement is noted next to the species's common name (for nomenclatural disagreements) or scientific name (for taxonomic disagreements).

Classification

The International Ornithologists' Union (IOU) recognises 15 species of New World barbets in two genera.^[1] This list does not include hybrid species, extinct prehistoric species, or putative species not yet accepted by the IOU.

Piciformes

	Galbulidae– Jacamars

	Bucconidae – Puff birds

	Indicatoridae – Honeyguides

	Picidae – Woodpeckers

Megalaimidae – Asian barbets

Lybiidae – African barbets

Semnornithidae – Toucan barbets

	Capitonidae – New World barbets

	Ramphastidae – Toucans

Relationships between the families of toucans and barbets, based on a phylogenetic study published in 2015.^[5]

Family Capitonidae

Genus Capito: eleven species
Genus Eubucco: four species

New World barbets

Genus *Capito* – Vieillot, 1816 – 11 species
Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	IUCN status and estimated population
Scarlet-crowned barbet	C. aurovirens Cuvier, 1829	Western Amazon rainforest	LC Unknown ^[6]
Scarlet-banded barbet	C. wallacei O'Neill and colleagues, 2000	North-central Peru	VU 250–999 ^[7]
Sira barbet	C. fitzpatricki Seeholzer and colleagues, 2012	Central Peru	NT 1,000–2,499 ^[8]
Spot-crowned barbet	C. maculicoronatus (Lawrence, 1861) Two subspecies C. m. maculicoronatus C. m. rubrilateralis	Panama and northwestern Colombia	LC 50,000–499,999 ^[9]
Orange-fronted barbet	C. squamatus Salvin, 1876	Southwestern Colombia and western Colombia	LC 37,000–63,000 ^[10]
White-mantled barbet	C. hypoleucus Salvin, 1897 Three subspecies C. h. hypoleucus C. h. carrikeri C. h. extinctus	Northwestern Colombia	VU 1,500–7,000 ^[11]
Black-girdled barbet	C. dayi Cherrie, 1916	Southern Amazon rainforest	VU Unknown ^[12]
Brown-chested barbet	C. brunneipectus Chapman, 1921	North-central Brazil	LC 37,000–265,000 ^[13]
Black-spotted barbet	C. niger (Müller, P. L. S., 1776)	Northeastern Amazon rainforest	LC Unknown ^[14]
Gilded barbet	C. auratus (Dumont, 1805) Three subspecies C. a. punctatus C. a. aurantiicinctus C. a. auratus C. a. orosae C. a. amazonicus C. a. nitidior C. a. hypochondriacus C. a. insperatus	North and western Amazon rainforest	LC Unknown ^[15]
Five-colored barbet	C. quinticolor Elliot, D. G., 1865	Western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador	NT 6,000–10,000 ^[16]

Genus *Eubucco* – Bonaparte, 1850 – 4 species
Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	IUCN status and estimated population
Lemon-throated barbet	E. richardsoni^[b] (Gray, G. R., 1846) Four subspecies E. r. richardsoni E. r. nigriceps E. r. aurantiicollis E. r. purusianus	Western Amazon rainforest	NE Unknown ^[c]
Red-headed barbet	E. bourcierii (Lafresnaye, 1845) Six subspecies E. b. salvini E. b. anomalus E. b. occidentalis E. b. bourcierii E. b. bourcierii E. b. orientalis		LC 500,000–4,999,999 ^[19]
Scarlet-hooded barbet	E. tucinkae (Seilern, 1913)	Southwestern Amazon rainforest	LC Unknown ^[20]
Versicolored barbet	E. versicolor^[d] (Müller, P. L. S., 1776) Three subspecies E. v. steerii E. v. versicolor E. v. glaucogularis		NE Unknown ^[e]

List of New World barbets

Classification

New World barbets

Notes

References

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