Crimson-hooded manakin

Crimson-hooded manakin
male
female
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Pipridae
Genus:	Pipra
Species:	P. aureola
Binomial name
Pipra aureola (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
Parus aureolaLinnaeus, 1758

The crimson-hooded manakin (Pipra aureola), also known as orange-headed manakin, is a species of passerine bird in the family Pipridae. It is found in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical swampland and heavily degraded former forest. It is the northernmost member of the genus Pipra. It forms a superspecies with both the band-tailed manakin (Pipra fasciicauda) and the wire-tailed manakin (Pipra filicauda).

Taxonomy

The crimson-hooded manakin was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Parus aureola. ^[2] Linnaeus partly based his account on "The Black and Yellow Manakyn" that had been described and illustrated in 1747 by English naturalist George Edwards in his book A Natural History of Uncommon Birds. ^[3] Linnaeus specified the type locality as America, but this was restricted to Suriname by the Austrian ornithologist Carl Eduard Hellmayr in 1906. ^{[4] [5]} The specific epithet is from Latin aureolus meaning "golden" or "brilliant". ^[6] The crimson-hooded manakin is now placed together with the band-tailed manakin and the wire-tailed manakin in the genus Pipra that was introduced by Linnaeus in 1764. ^[7] The species forms a superspecies with its two congeners. ^[8]

Four subspecies are recognised: ^[7]

• P. a. aureola (Linnaeus, 1758) – northeast Venezuela, the Guianas and northeast Brazil
• P. a. borbae Zimmer, JT, 1936 – west Brazil along the Madeira River
• P. a. aurantiicollis Todd, 1925 – central north Brazil
• P. a. flavicollis Sclater, PL, 1852 – southwest Amazonian Brazil

References

1. BirdLife International (2018). "Pipra aureola". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2018: e.T22700985A130266964. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22700985A130266964.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
2. Linnaeus, Carl (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (in Latin). Vol. 1 (10th ed.). Holmiae (Stockholm): Laurentii Salvii. p. 191.
3. Edwards, George (1747). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds. Vol. 2. London: Printed for the author at the College of Physicians. p. 83, Plate 83, fig 2.
4. Hellmayr, Carl Eduard (1906). "A revision of the species of the genus Pipra". Ibis. 6th series. 8: 1-46 [6].
5. Traylor, Melvin A. Jr, ed. (1979). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 8. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 276.
6. Jobling, James A. "aureola". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
7. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2024). "Cotingas, manakins, tityras, becards". IOC World Bird List Version 14.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
8. Snow, D. (2020). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Crimson-hooded Manakin (Pipra aureola), version 1.0" . Birds of the World. Ithaca, NY, USA: Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 26 February 2025.

• Snow, David W. (1963). "The display of the orange-headed manakin" (PDF). The Condor. 65 (1): 44–48. doi:10.2307/1365138.

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