See text 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.

[2][3] The generic name is from the Ancient Greek monas meaning "solitary".

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