Corapipo

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Corapipo
White-ruffed Manakin (C. altera).JPG
White-ruffed manakin (Corapipo altera)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Pipridae
Genus: Corapipo
Bonaparte, 1854
Type species
Pipra guttaralis
Linnaeus, 1766 [1]

Corapipo is a genus of birds in the manakin family Pipridae that are found in Central America and northern parts of South America.

Taxonomy

The genus Corapipo was introduced by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1854 with the white-throated manakin as the type species. [2]

The genus contains three species: [3]

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References

  1. Dickinson, E.C.; Christidis, L., eds. (2014). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Vol. 2: Passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 11. ISBN   978-0-9568611-2-2.
  2. Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1854). "Conspectus Volucrum Anisodactylorum". L'Ateneo Italiano. Raccolta di Documenti e Memorie Relative al Progresso delle Scienze Fisiche. 2 (11): 311–321 [316].
  3. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Cotingas, manakins, tityras, becards". World Bird List Version 8.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
  4. Snow, D.; Kirwan, G.M. (2018). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "White-ruffed Manakin (Corapipo leucorrhoa)" . Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 29 June 2018.