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Bucco
Collared puffbird (Bucco capensis)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Bucconidae
Genus: Bucco
Brisson, 1760
Type species
Bucco capensis[1]
Linnaeus, 1766
Species

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Bucco is a genus of birds in the puffbird family Bucconidae. Birds in the genus are native to the Americas.

The genus Bucco was introduced by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760 with the collared puffbird as the type species.[2] The name is from the Latin bucca for "cheek".[3]

Extant Species

The genus contains four species:[4]

Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
Bucco capensis Collared puffbird northern region of South America in the Amazon Basin, southern Colombia and Venezuela, and the Guianas.
Bucco macrodactylus Chestnut-capped puffbird northwestern South America in the western Amazon Basin of Brazil, in Amazonian Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, northern Bolivia, and in the eastern Orinoco River Basin of Venezuela.
Bucco noanamae Sooty-capped puffbird Colombia.
Bucco tamatia Spotted puffbird Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela

References

  1. ^ "Picidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. ^ Brisson, Mathurin Jacques (1760). Ornithologie, ou, Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés (in French and Latin). Paris: Jean-Baptiste Bauche. Vol. 1 p. 42, Vol 4 p. 91.
  3. ^ Jobling, J.A. (2018). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  4. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Jacamars, puffbirds, toucans, barbets, honeyguides". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 3 April 2018.