Coragyps

The genus Coragyps was introduced in 1853 by the French naturalist Emmanuel Le Maout to accommodate the black vulture.^[1][2]

The name combines the Ancient Greek korax meaning "raven" with gups meaning "vulture".^[3]

One extinct species is the 'western' black vulture, Coragyps occidentalis, a larger ancestral relative of the modern species which lived in North America during much of the Pleistocene epoch; however, genetic evidence indicates that C. occidentalis may not be a true species of its own, as it is nested within the modern black vulture.^[4][5][6] The other is the Cuban black vulture, Coragyps seductus, known from the Pleistocene of Cuba.^[7]