Notharchus

{{Short description|Genus of birds}}

{{automatic taxobox

| image = Notharchus pectoralis.jpg

| image_caption = Black-breasted puffbird (Notharchus pectoralis)

| taxon = Notharchus

| authority = Cabanis & Heine, 1863

| type_species = Bucco hyperrhynchus

| type_species_authority = P.L. Sclater, 1856

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text

}}

Notharchus is a genus of puffbird in the Bucconidae family.

The genus was introduced by the German ornithologists Jean Cabanis and Ferdinand Heine in 1863.{{ cite book | last1=Cabanis | first1=Jean | author1-link=Jean Cabanis | last2=Heine | first2=Ferdinand | author2-link=Ferdinand Heine | year=1863 | title=Museum Heineanum : Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt | volume=4 | language=German, Latin | place=Halberstadt | publisher=R. Frantz | pages=146, 149 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49587609 }} The type species was subsequently designated as the white-necked puffbird (Notharchus hyperrhynchus) by the English zoologist Philip Sclater in 1882.{{ cite book | last=Sclater | first=P.L. | author-link=Philip Sclater | year=1882 | title=A Monograph of the Jacamars and Puff-birds, or Families Galbulidae and Bucconidae | location=London | publisher=R.H. Porter | page=xxxv | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42311952 }}{{ cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee | editor-link=James L. Peters | year=1948 | title=Check-list of Birds of the World | volume=6 | publisher=Harvard University Press | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=10 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14477443 }} The generic name combines the Ancient Greek nōthēs meaning "sluggish" and arkhos meaning "leader" or "chief".{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url=https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=[https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling/page/n274 274] }}

The genus contains six species:{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2019 | title=Jacamars, puffbirds, toucans, barbets, honeyguides | work=World Bird List Version 9.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/jacamars/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=24 July 2019 }}

{{Species table |genus=Notharchus |authority-name=Cabanis & Heine |authority-year=1863 |species-count=six|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}

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|name= White-necked puffbird |binomial=Notharchus hyperrhynchus

|image=File:Notharchus hyperrhynchus -Belize -perching in tree-8.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Sclater, PL|authority-year= 1856 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= northern Colombia (including Magdalena Valley), northern Venezuela, and the western and southern Amazon Basin

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|name=Guianan puffbird |binomial=Notharchus macrorhynchos

|image=File:Notarchus macrorhynchus - Guianan puffbird; Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Gmelin, JF |authority-year=1788 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= north-eastern South America (and named after The Guianas), in far eastern Venezuela, north-eastern Brazil, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana

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|name=Brown-banded puffbird |binomial=Notharchus ordii

|image=File:Notharchus ordii Brown-banded Puffbird; Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brazil.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Cassin |authority-year=1851 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru, and in the Orinoco River region of Venezuela

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|name=Black-breasted puffbird |binomial=Notharchus pectoralis

|image=File:Black-breasted-puffbird.png|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Gray |authority-year=1846 |authority-not-original=yes

|range=Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama.

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|name=Buff-bellied puffbird |binomial=Notharchus swainsoni

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|authority-name=Gray |authority-year=1846 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay

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|name=Pied puffbird |binomial=Notharchus tectus

|image=File:Pied Puffbird - Ecuador.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Boddaert |authority-year=1783 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.

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|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Three subspecies |bullets=on

| N. t. subtectus (Sclater, PL, 1860)

| N. t. picatus (Sclater, PL, 1856)

| N. t. tectus (Boddaert, 1783)

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