Monasa
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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.[1][2] The generic name is from the Ancient Greek monas meaning "solitary".[3]
The genus contains four species:[4]
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