Pipra

For other uses, see Pipra (disambiguation).

Pipra
File:Pipra filicauda - Wire-tailed Manakin.jpg
Wire-tailed manakin Cristalino River, Southern Amazon, Brazil
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Pipridae
Genus:	Pipra Linnaeus, 1764
Type species
Parus aureola Linnaeus, 1758

Pipra is a genus of birds in the manakin family Pipridae.

Taxonomy and species list

The genus Pipra was introduced by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1764. The name was used by Ancient Greek authors such as Aristotle for a small bird but it is unclear which species it referred to. The type species was designated as the crimson-hooded manakin in 1840 by the English zoologist George Robert Gray.

The genus contains three species:

Genus Pipra – Linnaeus, 1764 – three species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Crimson-hooded manakin File:Pipra aureola - Swedish Museum of Natural History - Stockholm, Sweden - DSC00640.JPG Male {{{image2-alt}}} Female	Pipra aureola (Linnaeus, 1758)	Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela Map of range	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Band-tailed manakin File:Parque Estadual do Turvo Anderson Cristiano Hendgen (10).jpg Male {{{image2-alt}}} Female	Pipra fasciicauda Hellmayr, 1906	Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Peru Map of range	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Wire-tailed manakin File:Rabo de arame.jpg Male {{{image2-alt}}} Female	Pipra filicauda Spix, 1825	northern Peru, eastern Ecuador and Colombia, and southern and western portions of Venezuela Map of range	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC