Green toucanet

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Green toucanet
Emerald toucanet (Aulacorhynchus prasinus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Ramphastidae
Genus: Aulacorhynchus
Gould, 1835
Type species
Pteroglossus sulcatus[1]
Swainson, 1820
Species

see text

Synonyms
  • Aulacorhamphus

Green toucanets

mixed species flocks.[4]

Taxonomy and systematics

A major taxonomy review in 1974 resulted in 6 species in the genus Aulacorhynchus,[5] and this was adopted by virtually all later authorities.[3][6][7][8][9]

In 2001, it was suggested that A. prasinus, as traditionally defined, was a species complex that should be split into 7 different species based on preliminary morphological evidence.[10] This was to some extent supported by genetic evidence, which suggested that additional species should be recognized. As a result, A. griseigularis was split from in A. albivitta based on this early genetic evidence but these species are now lumped together again.[11][12]

Currently, there remains a considerable lack of consensus to support the IOC's latest taxonomy of Aulacorhynchus into eleven species.

SACC has called for further genetic studies of this genus.[6]

Species

The genus Aulacorhynchus has eleven species considered to belong to the genus:

Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
Aulacorhynchus wagleri Wagler's toucanet Sierra Madre del Sur of Guerrero and Oaxaca in south-western Mexico
Aulacorhynchus prasinus Emerald toucanet Mexico and Central America
Aulacorhynchus caeruleogularis Blue-throated toucanet Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia
Aulacorhynchus albivitta White-throated toucanet Andes from western Venezuela, through Colombia to northern Ecuador
Aulacorhynchus atrogularis Black-throated toucanet central Ecuador to western Bolivia
Aulacorhynchus sulcatus Groove-billed toucanet eastern Colombia and northern Venezuela
Aulacorhynchus derbianus Chestnut-tipped toucanet Colombia to central Bolivia
Aulacorhynchus whitelianus
Tepui toucanet
 Guiana
Aulacorhynchus haematopygus Crimson-rumped toucanet Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela
Aulacorhynchus huallagae Yellow-browed toucanet east Andean slope in northern Peru.
Aulacorhynchus coeruleicinctis Blue-banded toucanet Bolivia and Peru.

References

  1. ^ "Ramphastidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-25.
  2. ^ Boyd, J. (2011). Ramphastidae: Toucans. Accessed 20 May 2011
  3. ^
    ISBN 84-87334-37-7
  4. ISBN 0-7136-7242-0
    (vol. 2).
  5. ^ Haffer, J. (1974). Avian speciation in tropical South America. Publ. Nuttall Ornithol. Club 14: 1–390.
  6. ^ a b Remsen, J. V., Jr., C. D. Cadena, A. Jaramillo, M. Nores, J. F. Pacheco, J. Pérez-Emán, M. B. Robbins, F. G. Stiles, D. F. Stotz, and K. J. Zimmer (2011). A classification of the bird species of South America: Trogoniformes to Piciformes. Archived 2011-09-12 at the Wayback Machine American Ornithologists' Union. Accessed 25 May 2011
  7. ISBN 87-88757-16-1
  8. ^
    ISBN 0-7136-6536-X
  9. ^
    ISBN 978-0-7136-8695-1
  10. ^ Navarro, A., Peterson, A., López-Medrano, E., and Benítez-Díaz, H. (2001). Species limits in Mesoamerican Aulocorhynchus Toucanets. The Wilson Bull. 113(4): 363-372
  11. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2011.00475.x
  12. ^ Puebla-Olivares, F., E. Bonaccorso, A. E. de los Monteros, K. E. Omland, J. E. Llorente-Bousquets, A. T. Peterson, and A.G. Navarro-Siguenza. (2008). Speciation in the Emerald Toucanet (Aulacorhynchus prasinus) complex. The Auk. 125(1): 39-50.
  13. doi:10.14344/ioc.ml.6.4
    .
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