Species profile
Black-Spotted Barbet
Capito niger
Quick answer
E Venezuela, the Guianas, and ne Brazil n of the Amazon
- Scientific name
- Capito niger
- Family
- Capitonidae
- Order
- Piciformes
- Genus
- Capito
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
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Related species in Capitonidae
- Black-girdled Barbet (Capito dayi)
- Blue-moustached Barbet (Eubucco versicolor)
- Brown-chested Barbet (Capito brunneipectus)
- Capito lineatus (Capito lineatus)
- Five-colored Barbet (Capito quinticolor)
- Flame-throated Barbet (Eubucco aurantiicollis)
- Gilded Barbet (Capito auratus)
- Lemon-throated Barbet (Eubucco richardsoni)