Momotus momota
(Linnaeus, 1766) · speciesAt a glance
Sources12 archives
Databases and archives Momotus momota's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation12 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility56 723 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI32 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics33 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinegenome & karyotype↗
Paleobiology DatabasePBDB consortiumfossil record↗
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
IOC World Bird ListIOCbird checklist↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
The Amazonian motmot (Momotus momota) is a colorful near-passerine bird in the family Momotidae. It is found in the Amazon lowlands and low Andean foothills from eastern Venezuela to eastern Brazil and northeastern Argentina.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology13
Life cycle & reproduction7
Diet & foraging10
Habitat & environment4
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Momotus momota has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
The complete instruction manual Momotus momota carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.
Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is
Measured in base pairs (bp) — the individual letters of DNA (human ≈ 3.2 Gb, a bacterium a few million). The chart places this genome on a logarithmic scale — each step to the right is ten times bigger — among reference organisms. Across species a bigger genome loosely tracks with larger cells, slower growth and lower-energy lifestyles (powered flight favours small genomes) — yet it does not imply more genes or a more advanced organism (the long-standing C-value paradox).
Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers
Assembly level tells you how finished the sequence is — from fragmented contigs, through scaffolds, up to a full chromosome-level assembly. BUSCO % estimates completeness: the share of genes expected to be present that were actually found. These describe the data quality, not the organism.
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
How it livedPBDB
Record type56 723 records
Origin
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions25 of 51 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Moore Laboratory of Zoology, Occidental Collegelocation not on record | 127 |
| Louisiana State University, Museum of Zoologylocation not on record | 94 |
| Philadelphia, US | 65 |
| Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeirolocation not on record | 52 |
| US | 47 |
| Seattle, US | 44 |
| Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (IAvH)location not on record | 40 |
| Cambridge, US | 30 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 25 |
| Chicago, US | 23 |
| Mongolian Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 21 |
| Toronto, CA | 20 |
| St. Paul, US | 16 |
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 15 |
| Empresas Públicas de Medellín E.S.P. (EPM)location not on record | 13 |
| 12 | |
| Mexico City, MX | 12 |
| Washington, US | 11 |
| Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL)location not on record | 11 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 11 |
| Paris, FR | 10 |
| Edmonton, CA | 9 |
| Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collectionlocation not on record | 8 |
| Los Angeles, US | 7 |
| Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitanolocation not on record | 7 |
| Universidad de los Llanos (UniLlanos)location not on record | 6 |
| Universidade Federal do Parálocation not on record | 6 |
| Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ)location not on record | 6 |
| South Kensington, GB | 6 |
| Tuxtla Gutiérrez, MX | 5 |
| Universidad del Valle de Guatemalalocation not on record | 5 |
| Stockholm, SE | 4 |
| Ithaca, US | 4 |
| München, DE | 4 |
| Musée des Confluenceslocation not on record | 4 |
| UNICAMPlocation not on record | 3 |
| University of Wisconsin, Zoological Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Durango, MX | 2 |
| Delaware Museum of Nature and Sciencelocation not on record | 2 |
| Central Michigan University Museum of Cultural and Natural Historylocation not on record | 2 |
| Washington State University, Charles R. Conner Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Ohio State University - Bird Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM)location not on record | 2 |
| SNSDlocation not on record | 1 |
| Denver, US | 1 |
| NCBlocation not on record | 1 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| University, National Zoological Collection of Surinamelocation not on record | 1 |
| Vancouver, CA | 1 |
| Universidade Federal de Minas Geraislocation not on record | 1 |
| Zografou, GR | 1 |
| Albany, US | 1 |
Where the DNA of Momotus momota was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.