Manucode

This article is about the genus Manucodia. For other uses, see trumpet manucode.

Manucodes are birds-of-paradise in the genus Manucodia that are medium-sized with black-glossed purple and green plumages.

Manucode
Curl-crested manucode, (Manucodia comrii)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Paradisaeidae
Genus:	Manucodia Boddaert, 1783
Type species
Manucodia chalybea[1] Boddaert, 1783

The members of this genus are distributed in the lowland forests of New Guinea and nearby islands. They are monogamous and sexually monomorphic,^[2] in contrast to most birds-of-paradise.

The genus was introduced by the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert in 1783 for a single species, the crinkle-collared manucode (Manucodia chalybatus). This is now the type species.^[3][4] The genus name is a contracted form of Manucodiata that had been used in 1760 by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson for a group of birds-of-paradise.^[5][6] The word is derived from the Old Javanese Manuk meaning "birds" and dewata meaning "of the gods".^[6]

The genus contains five species.^[7]

Image	Common Name	Scientific name	Distribution
	Glossy-mantled manucode	Manucodia ater	lowlands of New Guinea and nearby islands
	Tagula manucode	Manucodia alter	Tagula Island of the Louisiade Archipelago
	Jobi manucode	Manucodia jobiensis	lowland forests of Jobi Island and northern New Guinea
	Crinkle-collared manucode	Manucodia chalybatus	New Guinea and Misool Island of West Papua.
	Curl-crested manucode	Manucodia comrii	Papua New Guinea,