Corapipo

Corapipo is a genus of birds in the manakin family Pipridae that are found in Central America and northern parts of South America.

Corapipo
White-ruffed manakin (Corapipo altera)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Pipridae
Genus:	Corapipo Bonaparte, 1854
Type species
Pipra guttaralis Linnaeus, 1766[1]

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)