Pipra

For other uses, see Pipra (disambiguation).

Pipra is a genus of birds in the manakin family Pipridae.

Pipra
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

Taxonomy and species list

The genus Pipra was introduced by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1764.^[1] The name was used by Ancient Greek authors such as Aristotle for a small bird but it is unclear which species it referred to.^[2] The type species was designated as the crimson-hooded manakin in 1840 by the English zoologist George Robert Gray.^[3][4]

The genus contains three species:^[5]

Genus Pipra – Linnaeus, 1764 – three species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Crimson-hooded manakin Male Female	Pipra aureola (Linnaeus, 1758)	Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Band-tailed manakin Male Female	Pipra fasciicauda Hellmayr, 1906	Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Peru	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Wire-tailed manakin Male Female	Pipra filicauda Spix, 1825	northern Peru, eastern Ecuador and Colombia, and southern and western portions of Venezuela	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC

References

1. Linnaeus, Carl (1764). Museum S:ae R:ae M:tis Adolphi Friderici Regis (in Latin). Vol. 2. Holmiae (Stockholm): Salvius. p. 32.
2. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 308. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
3. 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.
4. Traylor, Melvin A. Jr, ed. (1979). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 8. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 269.
5. 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.