| Monasa | |
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| Black-fronted nunbird (Monasa nigrifrons) | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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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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]
| Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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| Black nunbird
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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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Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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| Yellow-billed nunbird
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Monasa flavirostris Strickland, 1850 |
Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru
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Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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| White-fronted nunbird
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Monasa morphoeus (Hahn & Küster, 1823) |
Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela; in southern Central America in Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama
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Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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| Black-fronted nunbird
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Monasa nigrifrons (Spix, 1824) Two subspecies
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Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru
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Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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- ^ "Picidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1816). Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire (in French). Paris: Deterville/self. p. 27.
- ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1948). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 6. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 21.
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 259. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Jacamars, puffbirds, toucans, barbets, honeyguides". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 24 July 2019.