The Serra do Mar tyrant-manakin (''Neopelma chrysolophum''), or Serra do Mar neopelma or the Serra tyrant-manakin, 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 lightweig ...
in the
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 ...
, or
manakin
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 ...
family. 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 else ...
to humid mountain forest and woodland in south-eastern
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 ...
. It was formerly considered a
subspecies of
Wied's tyrant-manakin
Wied's tyrant-manakin (''Neopelma aurifrons'') is a species of bird in the family Pipridae. It is endemic to Atlantic moist forests in eastern Brazil. It was previously considered conspecific with ''Neopelma chrysolophum''. It is threatened by ha ...
.
References
External links
"Serra tyrant-manakin" videoson the Internet Bird Collection
Serra do Mar tyrant-manakin
Birds of the Atlantic Forest
Endemic birds of Brazil
Serra do Mar tyrant-manakin
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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