Black-billed mountain toucan
| Black-billed mountain toucan | |
|---|---|
| |
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Ramphastidae |
| Genus: | Andigena |
| Species: | A. nigrirostris
|
| Binomial name | |
| Andigena nigrirostris (Waterhouse, 1839)
| |
| Subspecies | |
|
See text | |
| Synonyms | |
| |
The black-billed mountain toucan (Andigena nigrirostris) is a species of bird in the family Ramphastidae. It is found in humid highland forests in the Andes of western Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and far northern Peru. It is the only mountain-toucan with a white throat. Despite its name, only the nominate subspecies has an entirely black bill, while both A. n. occidentalis and A. n. spilorhyncha have bills that are coloured chestnut and black.
Taxonomy and systematics
This species was originally described in the genus Pteroglossus.
Subspecies
Three subspecies are recognized:[2]
- A. n. occidentalis - Chapman, 1915: Found in western Colombia
- A. n. spilorhynchus - Gould, 1858: Originally described as a separate species. Found in southern Colombia, north-eastern Ecuador and northern Peru
- A. n. nigrirostris - (Waterhouse, 1839): Found in eastern Colombia, western Venezuela and eastern Ecuador
Literature
- John Gould and Henry Constantine Richter: A Monograph of the Ramphastidae, or Family of Toucans, London 1854
- Newly printed with an Introduction by Jonathan Elphick, Taschen, Köln, Germany 2011 ISBN 978-3-8365-0524-6
References
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Andigena nigrirostris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
{{cite journal}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - ^ "IOC World Bird List 6.4". IOC World Bird List Datasets. doi:10.14344/ioc.ml.6.4.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Andigena nigrirostris.
 | This Piciformes-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |