Nystalus is a genus of puffbirds in the family Bucconidae.
| Nystalus | |
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| Barred puffbird (Nystalus radiatus) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Bucconidae |
| Genus: | Nystalus Cabanis & Heine, 1863 |
| Type species | |
| Alcedo maculata Gmelin, 1788
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The genus Nystalus was introduced in 1863 by the German ornithologists Jean Cabanis and Ferdinand Heine.[1] The genus name is from Ancient Greek nustalos meaning "drowsy".[2] The type species was designated in 1882 as the caatinga puffbird by Philip Sclater.[3][4]
The genus contains the following six species:[5]
| Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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| White-eared puffbird
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Nystalus chacuru (Vieillot, 1816) |
Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina, and Peru.
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| Caatinga puffbird
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Nystalus maculatus (Gmelin, JF, 1788) |
eastern Brazil.
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| Chaco puffbird
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Nystalus striatipectus (PL Sclater, 1854) |
eastern Bolivia to south-central Brazil, south through western Paraguay to central Argentina
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| Barred puffbird
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Nystalus radiatus (Sclater, PL, 1854) |
Panama, Colombia and Ecuador.
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| Eastern striolated puffbird
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Nystalus striolatus (Pelzeln, 1856) |
Brazil and Bolivia
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| Western striolated puffbird
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Nystalus obamai (Whitney, Piacentini, Schunck, Aleixo, de Sousa, BRS, Silveira & Rêgo, MA, 2013) |
Bolivia, western Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
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References
edit- ^ Cabanis, Jean (1862–1863). 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. p. 139. For a discussion of the publication date see: Dickinson, E.C.; Overstreet, L.K.; Dowsett, R.J.; Bruce, M.D. (2011). Priority! The Dating of Scientific Names in Ornithology: a Directory to the literature and its reviewers. Northampton, UK: Aves Press. p. 83. ISBN 978-0-9568611-1-5.
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 277. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ 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. 13.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2023). "Jacamars, puffbirds, barbets, toucans, honeyguides". IOC World Bird List Version 13.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 15 February 2023.
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