crimson-fronted barbet

The crimson-fronted barbet was formally described in 1788 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with the puffbirds in the genus Bucco and coined the binomial name Bucco rubricapillus.{{ cite book |last=Gmelin |first=J. F. |author-link=Johann Friedrich Gmelin|year=1788 |title=Systema naturae per regna tria naturae : secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis |edition=13th |volume=((1, Part 1)) |language=Latin |location=Lipsiae [Leipzig] |publisher=Georg Emanuel Beer |page=408 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2897008}} The specific epithet combines the Latin ruber meaning "red" with -caillus meaning "-capped" or "-crowned".{{cite book |last=Jobling |first=J. A. | year=2010|title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names |publisher=Christopher Helm |location=London |isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 |page=340 |url=https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n340/mode/1up }} Gmelin based his description on the "red-crowned barbet" that had been described and illustrated in 1776 by the English illustrator and naturalist Peter Brown.{{ cite book |last=Brown |first=P. |author-link=Peter Brown (naturalist) |date=1776 |title=Nouvelles illustrations de zoologie : contenant cinquante planches enlumineés d'oiseaux curieux, et qui non etés jamais descrits, et quelques de quadrupedes, de reptiles et d'insectes, avec de courtes descriptions systematBuffoniques |trans-title=New illustrations of zoology, containing fifty coloured plates of new, curious, and non-descript birds, with a few quadrupeds, reptiles and insects |location=London |publisher=Imprimé pour B. White | page=14, 30 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27845800}} The crimson-fronted barbet is now one of 33 species placed in the genus Psilopogon that was introduced in 1836 by Salomon Müller.{{ cite journal |last=Müller |first=S. |author-link=Salomon Müller |date=1835 |title=Aanteekeningen over de natuurlijke gesteldheid van een gedeelte der westkust en binnenlanden van Sumatra, met bijvoeging van eenige waarnemingen en beschrijvingen van verscheid dieren |journal=Tijdschrift voor Natuurlijke Geschiedenis en Physiologie |volume=2 |language=Dutch |pages=315–355 [339] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XERnAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA339}} The title page is dated 1835 but the article was not published until 1836.{{cite web |editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=F. |editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) |editor2-last=Donsker |editor2-first=D. |editor3-last=Rasmussen |editor3-first=P. |editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen |date=2023 |title=Jacamars, puffbirds, toucans, barbets, honeyguides |work=IOC World Bird List Version 13.1 |url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/jacamars/ |publisher=International Ornithologists' Union |access-date=17 February 2023}} The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.

The crimson-fronted barbet has a mainly green plumage and wings, a blue band down the side of the head and neck, and a black crescent behind the eye. It is {{cvt|15|cm}} long with a short neck, large head and short tail. Its forages for fruit and insects, and nests in tree holes, laying 2-4 eggs.{{cn|date=April 2025}}

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• {{cite web |author=BirdLife International |title=Sri Lanka Barbet Psilopogon rubricapillus |year=2019 |url=http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/sri-lanka-barbet-psilopogon-rubricapillus}}

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Category:Psilopogon

Category:Endemic birds of Sri Lanka

Category:Birds described in 1788

Category:Taxa named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin