''Corapipo'' is a
genus of birds in the manakin family
Pipridae that are found in
Central America and northern parts of South America.
Taxonomy
The genus ''Corapipo'' was introduced by the French naturalist
Charles Lucien Bonaparte
Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte, 2nd Prince of Canino and Musignano (24 May 1803 – 29 July 1857), was a French naturalist and ornithologist. Lucien and his wife had twelve children, including Cardinal Lucien Bonaparte.
Life and career
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in 1854 with the
white-throated manakin as the
type species.
The genus contains three species:
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White-throated manakin (''Corapipo gutturalis'')
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White-ruffed manakin
The white-ruffed manakin (''Corapipo altera'') is a sub-oscine (Tyranni), passerine bird in the manakin family. It is a resident breeder in the tropical New World from eastern Honduras to northwestern Colombia. Its typical habitat is wet forest ...
(''Corapipo altera'') Sometimes treated as a subspecies of ''C. leucorrhoa''.
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White-bibbed manakin (''Corapipo leucorrhoa'')
References
Pipridae
Bird genera
Taxa named by Charles Lucien Bonaparte
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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