Monasa

Monasa
File:Monasa leofleck.jpg
Black-fronted nunbird (Monasa nigrifrons)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Piciformes
Family:	Bucconidae
Genus:	Monasa Vieillot, 1816
Type species
Cuculus ater Boddaert, 1783
Species
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Monasa is a genus of puffbirds in the Bucconidae family.

The genus was described by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816 with the black nunbird (Monasa atra) as the type species. The generic name is from the Ancient Greek monas meaning "solitary".

The genus contains four species:

Genus Monasa – Vieillot, 1816 – four species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Black nunbird File:Monasa atra - Black nunbird.JPG	Monasa atra (Boddaert, 1783)	North-central South America in the Guianas of Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana including the Guiana Shield; also eastern and southeastern Venezuela in the eastern Orinoco River Basin, and the Amazon Basin of northeast Brazil in the north-central and northeast Map of range	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Yellow-billed nunbird File:Yellow-billed Nunbird.jpg	Monasa flavirostris Strickland, 1850	Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru Map of range	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
White-fronted nunbird File:White-fronted Nunbird JCB.jpg	Monasa morphoeus (Hahn & Küster, 1823) Seven subspecies M. m. grandior PL Sclater & Salvin, 1868 M. m. fidelis Nelson, 1912 M. m. pallescens Cassin, 1860 M. m. sclateri Ridgway, 1912 M. m. peruana PL Sclater, 1856 M. m. rikeri Ridgway, 1912 M. m. morphoeus (Hahn & Küster, 1823)	Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela; in southern Central America in Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama Map of range	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Black-fronted nunbird File:Black-fronted Nunbird - Brazil H8O2216.jpg	Monasa nigrifrons (Spix, 1824) Two subspecies M. n. nigrifrons M. n. canescens	Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru Map of range	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC