Monasa
Genus of birds
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Monasa is a genus of puffbirds in the Bucconidae family.
| Monasa | |
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| Black-fronted nunbird (Monasa nigrifrons) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Bucconidae |
| Genus: | Monasa Vieillot, 1816 |
| Type species | |
| Cuculus ater[1] Boddaert, 1783 | |
| Species | |
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The genus was described by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816 with the black nunbird (Monasa atra) as the type species.[2][3] The generic name is from the Ancient Greek monas meaning "solitary".[4]
The genus contains four species:[5]
| Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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| Black nunbird
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Monasa atra (Boddaert, 1783) |
North-central South America in the Guianas of Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana including the Guiana Shield; also eastern and southeastern Venezuela in the eastern Orinoco River Basin, and the Amazon Basin of northeast Brazil in the north-central and northeast |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
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| Yellow-billed nunbird
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Monasa flavirostris Strickland, 1850 |
Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
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| White-fronted nunbird
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Monasa morphoeus (Hahn & Küster, 1823) |
Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela; in southern Central America in Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
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| Black-fronted nunbird
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Monasa nigrifrons (Spix, 1824) Two subspecies
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Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
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