Capito
Genus of birds
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Taxonomy
The genus Capito was introduced in 1816 by the French ornithologist Louis Vieillot to accommodate a single species, the "Tamatia à tête et gorge rouge" that had been described in 1780 by the French naturalist, the Comte de Buffon. This is the black-spotted barbet that had been assigned the binomial name Bucco niger by the German zoologist Philipp Statius Müller in 1776 and is the type species of the genus. The genus name is from Latin capito, capitonis meaning "big-headed".
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Species
The genus contains the following 11 species:
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