Nystalus

Nystalus
Barred puffbird (Nystalus radiatus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Bucconidae
Genus: Nystalus
Cabanis & Heine, 1863
Type species
Alcedo maculata
Gmelin, 1788

Nystalus is a genus of puffbirds in the family Bucconidae.

The genus Nystalus was introduced in 1863 by the German ornithologists Jean Cabanis and Ferdinand Heine.[1] The genus name is from Ancient Greek nustalos meaning "drowsy".[2] The type species was designated in 1882 as the caatinga puffbird by Philip Sclater.[3][4]

The genus contains the following six species:[5]

Genus Nystalus – Cabanis & Heine, 1863 – six species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
White-eared puffbird

Nystalus chacuru
(Vieillot, 1816) 		Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina, and Peru.
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Caatinga puffbird

Nystalus maculatus
(Gmelin, JF, 1788) 		eastern Brazil.
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Chaco puffbird

Nystalus striatipectus
(PL Sclater, 1854) 		eastern Bolivia to south-central Brazil, south through western Paraguay to central Argentina
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Barred puffbird

Nystalus radiatus
(Sclater, PL, 1854) 		Panama, Colombia and Ecuador.
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Eastern striolated puffbird

Nystalus striolatus
(Pelzeln, 1856) 		Brazil and Bolivia
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Western striolated puffbird

Nystalus obamai
(Whitney, Piacentini, Schunck, Aleixo, de Sousa, BRS, Silveira & Rêgo, MA, 2013) 		Bolivia, western Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
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  1. ^ Cabanis, Jean (1862–1863). Museum Heineanum : Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt (in German and Latin). Vol. 4. Halberstadt: R. Frantz. p. 139. For a discussion of the publication date see: Dickinson, E.C.; Overstreet, L.K.; Dowsett, R.J.; Bruce, M.D. (2011). Priority! The Dating of Scientific Names in Ornithology: a Directory to the literature and its reviewers. Northampton, UK: Aves Press. p. 83. ISBN 978-0-9568611-1-5.
  2. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 277. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  3. ^ Sclater, P.L. (1882). A Monograph of the Jacamars and Puff-birds, or Families Galbulidae and Bucconidae. London: R.H. Porter. p. xxxv.
  4. ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1948). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 6. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 13.
  5. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2023). "Jacamars, puffbirds, barbets, toucans, honeyguides". IOC World Bird List Version 13.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 15 February 2023.