Monasa

Monasa
Black-fronted nunbird (Monasa nigrifrons)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Bucconidae
Genus: Monasa
Vieillot, 1816
Type species
Cuculus ater[1]
Boddaert, 1783
Species

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Monasa is a genus of puffbirds in the Bucconidae family.

The genus was described by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816 with the black nunbird (Monasa atra) as the type species.[2][3] The generic name is from the Ancient Greek monas meaning "solitary".[4]

The genus contains four species:[5]

Genus Monasa – Vieillot, 1816 – four species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
Black nunbird

Monasa atra
(Boddaert, 1783) 		North-central South America in the Guianas of Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana including the Guiana Shield; also eastern and southeastern Venezuela in the eastern Orinoco River Basin, and the Amazon Basin of northeast Brazil in the north-central and northeast
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Diet: 		 LC 


Yellow-billed nunbird

Monasa flavirostris
Strickland, 1850 		Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru
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Diet: 		 LC 


White-fronted nunbird

Monasa morphoeus
(Hahn & Küster, 1823)

Seven subspecies
 Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela; in southern Central America in Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama
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Diet: 		 LC 


Black-fronted nunbird

Monasa nigrifrons
(Spix, 1824)

Two subspecies
  • M. n. nigrifrons
  • M. n. canescens
Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru
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Diet: 		 LC 



References

  1. ^ "Picidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. ^ Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1816). Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire (in French). Paris: Deterville/self. p. 27.
  3. ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1948). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 6. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 21.
  4. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 259. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  5. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Jacamars, puffbirds, toucans, barbets, honeyguides". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 24 July 2019.


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