Bucco
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Bucco is a genus of birds in the puffbird family Bucconidae. Birds in the genus are native to the Americas.
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Bucco | |
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Collared puffbird (Bucco capensis) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Piciformes |
Family: | Bucconidae |
Genus: | Bucco Brisson, 1760 |
Type species | |
Bucco capensis[1] Linnaeus, 1766 | |
Species | |
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The genus Bucco was introduced by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760 with the collared puffbird as the type species.[2] The name is from the Latin bucca for "cheek".[3]