Notharchus is a genus of puffbird in the Bucconidae family.
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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.[2][3] The generic name combines the Ancient Greek nōthēs meaning "sluggish" and arkhos meaning "leader" or "chief".[4]
The genus contains six species:[5]
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Genus Notharchus – Cabanis & Heine, 1863 – six species
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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 Basin[6]
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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 Guiana[6]
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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)
- N. t. subtectus (Sclater, PL, 1860)
- N. t. picatus (Sclater, PL, 1856)
- N. t. tectus (Boddaert, 1783)
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Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
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