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Monasa
Sign in to saveMonasa is a genus of puffbirds in the Bucconidae family.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPiciformes
- FamilyBucconidae
Observations recorded136,487
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 16
- With media
- 19
- Family
- Bucconidae
- Collections
- CUMV, USNM, CLO, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, NHMUK, MNHN
- Recorded in
- French Guiana, Brazil, Peru, Costa Rica, BréSil
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Bucconidae
- Image
- Monasa nigrifrons.jpg
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- Commons category
- Monasa
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Monasa
- taxon name
- Monasa
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Encyclopedic overview
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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. The generic name is from the Ancient Greek monas meaning "solitary".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Monasa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.