Bucco

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

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

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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]

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Bucco capensisCollared puffbirdnorthern region of South America in the Amazon Basin, southern Colombia and Venezuela, and the Guianas.
Bucco macrodactylusChestnut-capped puffbirdnorthwestern 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 noanamaeSooty-capped puffbirdColombia.
Bucco tamatiaSpotted puffbirdBolivia, 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.


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