Pipra

For other uses, see Pipra (disambiguation).

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

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

Taxonomy and species list

The genus Pipra was introduced by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1764.^[1] The name was used by Ancient Greek authors such as Aristotle for a small bird but it is unclear which species it referred to.^[2] The type species was designated as the crimson-hooded manakin in 1840 by the English zoologist George Robert Gray.^[3][4]

The genus contains three species:^[5]

Genus Pipra – Linnaeus, 1764 – three species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Crimson-hooded manakin Male Female	Pipra aureola (Linnaeus, 1758)	Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Band-tailed manakin Male Female	Pipra fasciicauda Hellmayr, 1906	Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Peru	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Wire-tailed manakin Male Female	Pipra filicauda Spix, 1825	northern Peru, eastern Ecuador and Colombia, and southern and western portions of Venezuela	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC