Pipra | |
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Wire-tailed manakin Cristalino River, Southern Amazon, Brazil | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Pipridae |
Genus: | Pipra Linnaeus, 1764 |
Type species | |
Parus aureola Linnaeus, 1758 |
Pipra is a genus of birds in the manakin family Pipridae.
Taxonomy and species list
The genus Pipra was introduced by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1764. The name was used by Ancient Greek authors such as Aristotle for a small bird but it is unclear which species it referred to. The type species was designated as the crimson-hooded manakin in 1840 by the English zoologist George Robert Gray.
The genus contains three species:
Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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Crimson-hooded manakin | Pipra aureola (Linnaeus, 1758) |
Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela |
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Band-tailed manakin | Pipra fasciicauda Hellmayr, 1906 |
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Peru |
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Wire-tailed manakin | Pipra filicauda Spix, 1825 |
northern Peru, eastern Ecuador and Colombia, and southern and western portions of Venezuela |
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References
- Linnaeus, Carl (1764). Museum S:ae R:ae M:tis Adolphi Friderici Regis (in Latin). Vol. 2. Holmiae (Stockholm): Salvius. p. 32.
- Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 308. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- Gray, George Robert (1840). A List of the Genera of Birds : with an Indication of the Typical Species of Each Genus. London: R. and J.E. Taylor. p. 33.
- Traylor, Melvin A. Jr, ed. (1979). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 8. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 269.
- Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Cotingas, manakins, tityras, becards". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
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