Corapipo Explained

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 in 1854 with the white-throated manakin as the type species.^[1]

The genus contains three species:^[2]

• White-throated manakin (Corapipo gutturalis)
• White-ruffed manakin (Corapipo altera) Sometimes treated as a subspecies of C. leucorrhoa.^[3]
• White-bibbed manakin (Corapipo leucorrhoa)

Notes and References

1. Bonaparte . Charles Lucien . Charles Lucien Bonaparte . 1854 . Conspectus Volucrum Anisodactylorum . L'Ateneo Italiano. Raccolta di Documenti e Memorie Relative al Progresso delle Scienze Fisiche . 2 . 11 . 311–321 [316] .
2. Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . 2018 . Cotingas, manakins, tityras, becards . World Bird List Version 8.2 . International Ornithologists' Union . 27 June 2018 .
3. Web site: Snow . D. . Kirwan . G.M. . 2018 . White-ruffed Manakin (Corapipo leucorrhoa) . del Hoyo . J. . Elliott . A. . Sargatal . J. . Christie . D.A. . de Juana . E. . Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive . Lynx Edicions . 29 June 2018 . subscription .