Malabar barbet Malabar barbet The Malabar barbet ("Psilopogon malabaricus") is a small barbet found in the Western Ghats of India. It was formerly treated as a race of the crimson-fronted barbet ("Psilopogon rubricapillus"). It overlaps in some places with the range of the coppersmith barbet ("Psilopogon haemacephala") and has a similar but more rapid call. This species can be told apart from the coppersmith barbet by the crimson face and throat. The call notes are more rapidly delivered than in the other species. This species is found in the Western Ghats from around Goa south to southern Kerala in moist evergreen forest
Malabar trevally to these squid. Little is known of its breeding cycle, with the only publication on the subject part of a 1984 study in Indian waters. The Malabar trevally's breeding period was reported as between February and October in this location, with the main peak from July to September. Each individual spawned only once per year. The size at which the species is first able to breed is for both sexes, with the number of eggs produced related to each individual's length and weight. In South Africa, seasonal small shoals of juveniles are known from parts of the coast, suggesting a