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Pipra

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

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]

^ Linnaeus, Carl (1764). Museum S:ae R:ae M:tis Adolphi Friderici Regis (in Latin). Vol. 2. Holmiae (Stockholm): Salvius. p. 32.
^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 308. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
^ Gray, George Robert (1840). A List of the Genera of Birds : with an Indication of the Typical Species of Each Genus. London: R. and J.E. Taylor. p. 33.
^ Traylor, Melvin A. Jr, ed. (1979). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 8. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 269.
^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Cotingas, manakins, tityras, becards". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 20 October 2020.