Monasa | |
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Black-fronted nunbird (Monasa nigrifrons) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Piciformes |
Family: | Bucconidae |
Genus: | Monasa Vieillot, 1816 |
Type species | |
Cuculus ater[1] Boddaert, 1783
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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]
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Monasa atra | Black nunbird | 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 | |
Monasa flavirostris | Yellow-billed nunbird | Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru | |
Monasa morphoeus | White-fronted nunbird | Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela; in southern Central America in Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama | |
Monasa nigrifrons | Black-fronted nunbird | Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru |