Corapipo
Genus of birds
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Corapipo is a genus of birds in the manakin family Pipridae that are found in Central America and northern parts of South America.
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| Corapipo | |
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| White-ruffed manakin (Corapipo altera) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Pipridae |
| Genus: | Corapipo Bonaparte, 1854 |
| Type species | |
| Pipra guttaralis | |
Taxonomy
The genus Corapipo was introduced by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1854 with the white-throated manakin as the type species.[2]
The genus contains three species:[3]
- White-throated manakin (Corapipo gutturalis)
- White-ruffed manakin (Corapipo altera) Sometimes treated as a subspecies of C. leucorrhoa.[4]
- White-bibbed manakin (Corapipo leucorrhoa)
