About: Prong-billed Barbet   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

The Prong-billed barbet (Semnornis frantzii), is a species of barbet in the Semnornithidae family. It is native to humid highland forest in Costa Rica and western Panama. It often has been placed with the other barbets in the Capitonidae. However, DNA studies have confirmed that this arrangement is paraphyletic; New World barbets are more closely related to toucans than they are to Old World barbets. As a result, the barbet lineages are considered distinct families; the prong-billed barbet and the toucan barbet now form a separate family, Semnornithidae.

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • Prong-billed Barbet
rdfs:comment
  • The Prong-billed barbet (Semnornis frantzii), is a species of barbet in the Semnornithidae family. It is native to humid highland forest in Costa Rica and western Panama. It often has been placed with the other barbets in the Capitonidae. However, DNA studies have confirmed that this arrangement is paraphyletic; New World barbets are more closely related to toucans than they are to Old World barbets. As a result, the barbet lineages are considered distinct families; the prong-billed barbet and the toucan barbet now form a separate family, Semnornithidae.
sameAs
dcterms:subject
statusimage
  • LC
dbkwik:animals/pro...iPageUsesTemplate
Status
  • Least Concern
Name
  • Toucan Barbet
Species
  • Semnornis frantzii
Genus
Class
Family
Order
Phylum
Location
  • Costa Rica and western Panama.
abstract
  • The Prong-billed barbet (Semnornis frantzii), is a species of barbet in the Semnornithidae family. It is native to humid highland forest in Costa Rica and western Panama. It often has been placed with the other barbets in the Capitonidae. However, DNA studies have confirmed that this arrangement is paraphyletic; New World barbets are more closely related to toucans than they are to Old World barbets. As a result, the barbet lineages are considered distinct families; the prong-billed barbet and the toucan barbet now form a separate family, Semnornithidae. The prong-billed barbet prefers cool, wet, moss-festooned mountain forest with large trees and adjacent habitat. Eats mainly fruits of trees and epiphytes, although it occasionally takes insects or flower petals. Flight is direct with rapid and buzzy wingbeats. The frequently heard and distinctive song is a throaty "cwa-cwa-cwa-cwa..." duet given by mated pair or two individuals in a group. Pairs nest March–May in an unlined woodpecker cavity, with 4–5 eggs in the nest. The binomial commemorates the German naturalist Alexander von Frantzius.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software