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Ramphastides
Sign in to saveRamphastides is an infraorder of the order Piciformes that includes toucans and barbets. Formerly, the barbets have been classified in a single family, the Capitonidae. However, this has turned out to be paraphyletic about toucans, which resulted in the Capitonidae being split into several families.
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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. However, this has turned out to be paraphyletic about toucans, which resulted in the Capitonidae being split into several families.
==Systematics== The Ramphastides contain five extant families. Sometimes, they are treated as the superfamily Ramphastoidea. Infraorder Ramphastides Megalaimidae - Asian barbets Lybiidae - African barbets Capitonidae - New World barbets Semnornithidae - toucan-barbets Ramphastidae - toucans
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ramphastides” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.