Neopelma Aurifrons - Wied's Tyrant-Manakin
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''Neopelma'' is a genus 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 lightweig ...
in the 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 ...
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Etymology

''Neopelma'': gr, νεος ''neos'' “new, different”; πελμα ''pelma'', πελματος ''pelmatos'' “sole of the foot”.


Species

It contains the following species:


References

Bird genera Taxa named by Philip Sclater Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Pipridae-stub