''Antilophia'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
of South American birds in the manakin family
Pipridae
The manakins are a family, Pipridae, of small suboscine passerine birds. The group contains some 54 species distributed through the American tropics. The name is from Middle Dutch ''mannekijn'' "little man" (also the source of the different bird ...
.
Taxonomy
The genus ''Antilophia'' was introduced in 1850 by the German naturalist
Ludwig Reichenbach to accommodate the
helmeted manakin
The helmeted manakin (''Antilophia galeata'') is a species of smallpasserine bird in the manakin family Pipridae. Unlike most manakins, a family associated with tropical rainforests, the helmeted manakin inhabits the seasonally dry Cerrado savann ...
. The genus name combines the
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic p ...
''antios'' meaning "different" with ''lophoeis'' meaning "crested".
The genus contains the following two species:
References
Bird genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Taxa named by Ludwig Reichenbach
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