Bucco is a genus of birds in the puffbird family Bucconidae. Birds in the genus are native to the Americas.
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| Collared puffbird (Bucco capensis) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Bucconidae |
| Genus: | Bucco Brisson, 1760 |
| Type species | |
| Bucco capensis[1] Linnaeus, 1766
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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 edit
The genus contains four species:[4]
| Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Bucco capensis | Collared puffbird | northern region of South America in the Amazon Basin, southern Colombia and Venezuela, and the Guianas. |
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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. | |
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Bucco tamatia | Spotted puffbird | Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela |
References edit
- ^ "Picidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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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