Ramphastides

Infraorder of birds

Barbets

Toco toucan (Ramphastos toco)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Piciformes
Suborder:	Pici
Infraorder:	Ramphastides Vigors, 1825
Families
Megalaimidae Lybiidae Capitonidae Ramphastidae Semnornithidae

Ramphastides is an infraorder of the order Piciformes that includes toucans and barbets. Formerly, the barbets have been classified in a single family, the Capitonidae.^[1] However, this has turned out to be paraphyletic with regard to toucans, which resulted in the Capitonidae being split into several families.^[2]^[3]

Systematics

The Ramphastides contain five extant families. Sometimes, they are treated as the superfamily Ramphastoidea.^[4]

Infraorder Ramphastides
- Megalaimidae - Asian barbets
- Lybiidae - African barbets
- Capitonidae - New World barbets
- Semnornithidae - toucan-barbets
- Ramphastidae - toucans

References

^ LL Short, JFM Horne (2002) Family Capitonidae (barbets). in del Hoyo J., Elliott A. & Christie D.A. (2004) Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 7. Jamacars to Woodpeckers Lynx Edicions, Barcelona ISBN 84-87334-37-7
^ Sibley, Charles Gald & Ahlquist, Jon Edward (1990): Phylogeny and classification of birds. Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn.
^ Moyle, R. G. (2004). Phylogenetics of barbets (Aves: Piciformes) based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequence data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 30(1), 187-200.
^ Simpson, S. F., & Cracraft, J. (1981). The phylogenetic relationships of the Piciformes (Class Aves). The Auk, 481-494.