The grey-winged cotinga (''Lipaugus conditus'') is a species of

bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...

in the family Cotingidae. It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

where it is restricted to the

Serra dos Órgãos The Serra dos Órgãos ("Organ Range") is a mountain range in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It contains the Serra dos Órgãos National Park. Location The Serra dos Órgãos is the name of the region of the Serra do Mar in the central pa ...

and Serra do Tinguá in

Rio de Janeiro State Rio de Janeiro () is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil. It has the second largest economy of Brazil, with the largest being that of the state of São Paulo. The state, which has 8.2% of the Brazilian population, is responsible for 9.2% of ...

. Its natural

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is tropical moist

montane forest Montane ecosystems are found on the slopes of mountains. The alpine climate in these regions strongly affects the ecosystem because temperatures fall as elevation increases, causing the ecosystem to stratify. This stratification is a crucial f ...

. This species was formerly placed in the genus ''Tijuca''. A

molecular phylogenetic Molecular phylogenetics () is the branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences, predominantly in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships. From these analyses, it is possible to ...

study published in 2014 found the ''Tijuca'' was embedded within the genus ''

Lipaugus ''Lipaugus'' is a genus of birds in the family Cotingidae. Taxonomy The genus was introduced in 1828 by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie in 1828. Boie spelled the genus name as ''Lipangus'' but this was corrected to ''Lipaugus''. The name co ...

''. Based on this result ''Tijuca'' was subsumed into ''Lipaugus''.

References

External links

BirdLife Species Factsheet.
Lipaugus Birds of the Atlantic Forest Endemic birds of Brazil Birds described in 1980 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Cotingidae-stub