The rufous motmot (Baryphthengus martii) is a near-passerine bird in the family Momotidae.

[4] Later, the Nicaraguan and Costa Rican populations were considered to be a third subspecies, B. m. costaricensis, but it was decided they were part of B. m.

[3] The binomial commemorates the German botanist and explorer Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.

Adults are mainly cinnamon-rufous, with a black face mask and central breast spot, green wings and sides, a greenish-blue lower belly, and dark blue tail and flight feathers.

Young birds are paler and duller than adults, and lack the tail rackets and black breast spot.

It has been documented eating many types of fruit, adult insects and their larva, arachnids including crustaceans, and small fish, lizards, and frogs.