Bucco

Genus

1. PhylumChordata
2. ClassAves
3. OrderPiciformes
4. FamilyBucconidae

Bucco is a genus of birds in the puffbird family Bucconidae. Birds in the genus are native to the Americas. The genus Bucco was introduced by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760 with the collared puffbird as the type species.[1] The name is from the Latin bucca for "cheek".[2] Extant Species The genus contains four species:[3] References ^ Brisson, Mathurin Jacques (1760). Ornithologie, ou, Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés (in French and Latin). Paris: Jean-Baptiste Bauche. Vol. 1 p. 42, Vol 4 p. 91. ^ Jobling, J.A. (2018). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 3 April 2018. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Jacamars, puffbirds, toucans, barbets, honeyguides". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 3 April 2018. Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bucco&oldid=1154719141"

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Specimen records

238

With media

154

Family

Bucconidae

Collections

CM, USNM, UCLA, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE

Recorded in

Colombia, Venezuela, Nicaragua

Wikidata facts

Instance of

taxon

Parent taxon

Bucconidae

Image

Collared Puffbird.jpg

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