| Malacoptila | |
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| White-whiskered puffbird (Malacoptila panamensis) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Bucconidae |
| Genus: | Malacoptila G.R. Gray, 1841 |
| Type species | |
| Bucco fuscus Gmelin, 1788
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Malacoptila is a genus of puffbirds in the family Bucconidae, one of ten genera.
The genus Malacoptila was introduced in 1841 by the English zoologist George Robert Gray.[1] The name combines the Ancient Greek malakos meaning "soft" with ptilon meaning "plumage" or "feather".[2] The type species is the white-chested puffbird.[3]
- ^ Gray, George Robert (1841). A List of the Genera of Birds : with their Synonyma and an Indication of the Typical Species of Each Genus (2nd ed.). London: R. and J.E. Taylor. p. 13.
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 239. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1948). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 6. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 16.