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Nystalus
Sign in to saveNystalus is a genus of puffbirds in the family Bucconidae.
Species
Spot-backed Puffbird
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPiciformes
- FamilyBucconidae
Observations1,042
Observations recorded64,622
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 11
- Family
- Bucconidae
- Collections
- UNICAMP, UMZC
- Recorded in
- Brazil
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Nystalus is a genus of puffbirds in the family Bucconidae.
The genus Nystalus was introduced in 1863 by the German ornithologists Jean Cabanis and Ferdinand Heine. The genus name is from Ancient Greek nustalos meaning "drowsy". The type species was designated in 1882 as the caatinga puffbird by Philip Sclater.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nystalus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.