| Notharchus | |
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| Black-breasted puffbird (Notharchus pectoralis) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Bucconidae |
| Genus: | Notharchus Cabanis & Heine, 1863 |
| Type species | |
| Bucco hyperrhynchus P.L. Sclater, 1856
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Notharchus is a genus of puffbird in the Bucconidae family.
The genus was introduced by the German ornithologists Jean Cabanis and Ferdinand Heine in 1863.1 The type species was subsequently designated as the white-necked puffbird (Notharchus hyperrhynchus) by the English zoologist Philip Sclater in 1882.23 The generic name combines the Ancient Greek nōthēs meaning "sluggish" and arkhos meaning "leader" or "chief".4
The genus contains six species:5
| Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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| White-necked puffbird
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Notharchus hyperrhynchus (Sclater, PL, 1856) |
northern Colombia (including Magdalena Valley), northern Venezuela, and the western and southern Amazon Basin6
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| Guianan puffbird
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Notharchus macrorhynchos (Gmelin, JF, 1788) |
north-eastern South America (and named after The Guianas), in far eastern Venezuela, north-eastern Brazil, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana6
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| Brown-banded puffbird
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Notharchus ordii (Cassin, 1851) |
Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru, and in the Orinoco River region of Venezuela
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| Black-breasted puffbird
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Notharchus pectoralis (Gray, 1846) |
Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama.
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| Buff-bellied puffbird
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Notharchus swainsoni (Gray, 1846) |
Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay
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| Pied puffbird
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Notharchus tectus (Boddaert, 1783) Three subspecies
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Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
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References
References
- Cabanis, Jean; Heine, Ferdinand (1863). Museum Heineanum : Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt (in German and Latin). Vol. 4. Halberstadt: R. Frantz. pp. 146, 149.
- Sclater, P.L. (1882). A Monograph of the Jacamars and Puff-birds, or Families Galbulidae and Bucconidae. London: R.H. Porter. p. xxxv.
- Peters, James Lee, ed. (1948). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 6. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 10.
- Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 274. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Jacamars, puffbirds, toucans, barbets, honeyguides". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
- Chesser, R. Terry; Banks, Richard C.; Barker, F. Keith; Cicero, Carla; Dunn, Jon L.; Kratter, Andrew W.; Lovette, Irby J.; Rasmussen, Pamela C.; Remsen, Jr., J. V.; Rising, James D.; Stotz, Douglas F.; Winker, Kevin (July 2009). "Fiftieth Supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-list of North American Birds". The Auk. 126 (3): 705–714. doi:10.1525/auk.2009.8709. JSTOR 10.1525/auk.2009.8709.