Mountain toucan

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Mountain toucan
Andigena laminirostris.jpg
Plate-billed mountain toucan
Andigena laminirostris
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Ramphastidae
Genus: Andigena
Gould, 1851
Type species
Pteroglossus hypoglaucus [1]
Gould, 1833
Species

4, see text

Andigena, the mountain toucans, is a genus of birds in the family Ramphastidae. They are found in humid highland forests in the Andes of South America, ranging from Bolivia to Venezuela. These medium-sized toucans all have olive-brown upperparts, a black crown, yellow rump, blue-grey underparts and a red vent.

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Taxonomy and systematics

Extant species

Genus Andigena Gould, 1851 – four species
Common nameScientific name and subspeciesRangeSize and ecologyIUCN status and estimated population
Grey-breasted mountain toucan

Grey-breasted mountain toucan (Andigena hypoglauca) Caldas.jpg

Andigena hypoglauca
(Gould, 1833)

Two subspecies
  • A. h. hypoglauca (Gould, 1833)
  • A. h. lateralis (Chapman, 1923)
Southern Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
Grey-breasted Mountain-Toucan map.PNG
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Plate-billed mountain toucan

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Andigena laminirostris
Gould, 1851
Western Ecuador and far south-western Colombia
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Hooded mountain toucan

Andigena cucullata (Hooded Mountain Toucan), Vogelpark Walsrode.jpg

Andigena cucullata
(Gould, 1846)
South-eastern Peru to central Bolivia
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Black-billed mountain toucan

Black-billed-Mountain-Toucan.jpg

Andigena nigrirostris
(Waterhouse, 1839)

Three subspecies
Western Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and far northern Peru
Andigena nigrirostris map.svg
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Former species

Some authorities, either presently or formerly, recognize additional species or subspecies as species belonging to the genus Andigena including:

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References

  1. "Ramphastidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-25.
  2. "Pteroglossus bailloni - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2016-12-27.

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