"Bucco cyanotis" was the scientific name proposed by Edward Blyth in 1847 who described a barbet from the Arakan area.In the 19th and 20th centuries, about 19 generic names were proposed for Asian barbet species, including "Psilopogon" by Salomon Müller in 1836, "Megalaima" by George Robert Gray in 1849 and "Mezobucco" by George Ernest Shelley in 1889.