Pied puffbird
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Piciformes |
Family: | Bucconidae |
Genus: | Notharchus |
Species: | N. tectus
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Binomial name | |
Notharchus tectus (Boddaert, 1783)
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The pied puffbird (Notharchus tectus) is a species of puffbird in the family Bucconidae.
It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and heavily degraded former forest.
Taxonomy[]
The pied puffbird was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1780 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux from a specimen collected in Cayenne, French Guiana.[2] The bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text.[3] Neither the plate caption nor Buffon's description included a scientific name but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert coined the binomial name Bucco tectus in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées.[4] The pied puffbird is now placed in the genus Notharchus that was introduced by the German ornithologists Jean Cabanis and Ferdinand Heine in 1863.[5][6] The generic name combines the Ancient Greek nōthēs meaning "sluggish" and arkhos meaning "leader" or "chief". The specific epithet tectus is Latin for "covered" or "concealed".[7]
Three subspecies are recognised:[6]
- N. t. subtectus (Sclater, PL, 1860) – east Costa Rica to central Colombia and southwest Ecuador
- N. t. picatus (Sclater, PL, 1856) – east Ecuador and east Peru
- N. t. tectus (Boddaert, 1783) – south Venezuela, the Guianas and north Brazil
Gallery[]
In Panama
Sacha Lodge, Ecuador
Sacha Lodge, Ecuador
References[]
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Notharchus tectus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de (1780). Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux (in French). Volume 13. Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale. p. 149.
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has extra text (help) - ^ Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de; Martinet, François-Nicolas; Daubenton, Edme-Louis; Daubenton, Louis-Jean-Marie (1765–1783). "Barbu à poitrine noire, de Cayenne". Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle. Volume 7. Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale. Plate 688 Fig. 2.
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has extra text (help) - ^ Boddaert, Pieter (1783). Table des planches enluminéez d'histoire naturelle de M. D'Aubenton : avec les denominations de M.M. de Buffon, Brisson, Edwards, Linnaeus et Latham, precedé d'une notice des principaux ouvrages zoologiques enluminés (in French). Utrecht. p. 43, Number 688 Fig. 2.
- ^ 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). Volume 4. Halberstadt: R. Frantz. pp. 146, 149.
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has extra text (help) - ^ Jump up to: a b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Jacamars, puffbirds, toucans, barbets, honeyguides". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 274, 380. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Notharchus
- Birds of Costa Rica
- Birds of Panama
- Birds of Colombia
- Birds of the Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena
- Birds of the Amazon Basin
- Birds of the Guianas
- Birds described in 1783
- Birds of Brazil
- Piciformes stubs