Buff-throated Purpletuft

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Buff-throated Purpletuft
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tityridae
Genus: Iodopleura
Species: I. pipra
Binomial name
Iodopleura pipra
(Lesson, 1831)

The Buff-throated Purpletuft (Iodopleura pipra) is a species of bird in the Tityridae family. It has traditionally been placed in the cotinga family, but evidence strongly suggest it is better placed in Tityridae[1], where now placed by SACC. It is endemic to Atlantic forest in Brazil.

It is threatened by habitat loss.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Adopt the Family Tityridae - South American Classification Committee (2007)


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