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Saffron Toucanet Pteroglossus
bailloni
(aka Baillonius bailloni)
Brazilian name: araçari-banana |
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Brazil
The
Saffron Toucanet is distributed in eastern Brazil and adjacent
areas of Argentina and Paraguay. It is found in Atlantic Rain
Forest but, while distinctive, it tends to remain relatively
inconspicuous.
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It is mainly yellow and olive
with a horn coloured bill showing red around the base. The skin
around the eye is red and the eye itself is yellow. It has a red
rump.
It feeds mainly on fruits such as the
Cecropia that you can see in photo 1. It nests in old
woodpecker holes.
The following reference is of taxonomic interest:
Genetic distances and phylogenetic analysis suggest that
Baillonius Cassin, 1867 is a Pteroglossus Illiger,
1811 (Piciformes: Ramphastidae).
Authors: Kimura,-Renato-Kenji; Pereira,-Sergio-Luiz;
Grau,-Erwin-Tramontini; Hofling,-Elizabeth; Wajntal,-Anita
Ornitologia Neotropical . 2004 30 November; 15(4):
527-537
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Abstract: A close relationship
between the monotypic Baillonius Cassin, 1867 and
Pteroglossus Illiger, 1811 has been previously suggested
by morphological, behavioral and molecular data. In the present
work, we show that phylogenetic analysis of a fragment of
mitochondrial cytochrome b sequences places Baillonius
within Pteroglossus. This association received a strong
support from maximum likelihood bootstrap and Bayesian posterior
probabilities. The recovered tree topology shows that
Baillonius bailloni is more closely related to
Pteroglossus inscriptus, being P. bitorquatus as
sister Glade to them. These three species, in turn, are a sister
Glade to P. aracari, P. castanotis and P.
torquatus. Pteroglossus beauharnaesii is the sister
lineage to all Pteroglossus and Baillonius.
Moreover, genetic distances for Baillonius and
Pteroglossus are the lowest between any
Ramphastinae genera among themselves or between any genus
and Baillonius or Pteroglossus. Therefore, based on
our phylogenetic reconstruction and genetic distance analyses and
other previously published non-molecular data, we suggest that
Baillonius bailloni to be renamed Pteroglossus
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There are recordings on
xeno-canto, a distribution map from NatureServe and additional information
available via Avibase. There is a page with excellent
photos at Wikiaves. |
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