Biology:Black-and-gold cotinga

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Short description: Species of bird

Black-and-gold cotinga
Tijuca atra Black-and-gold Cotinga.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Cotingidae
Genus: Lipaugus
Species:
L. ater
Binomial name
Lipaugus ater
(Férussac, 1829)
Lipaugus ater map.svg

The black-and-gold cotinga (Lipaugus ater) is a species of bird in the family Cotingidae. It is endemic to humid Atlantic Forest in the highlands of the Serra do Mar in south-eastern Brazil . It is threatened by habitat loss, but remains common within several national parks, e.g. Serra dos Órgãos and Itatiaia. Males are highly vocal, and their loud, piercing whistle is frequently heard. It is strongly sexually dimorphic. Except for a bright yellow wing-speculum, males are superficially similar to the male common blackbird, while the far less conspicuous females are overall olive. The female resemble both sexes of the only other member of the genus, the grey-winged cotinga, but is larger, has a thicker bill, and yellowish-olive (not grey) remiges.

This species was formerly placed in the genus Tijuca. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found the Tijuca was embedded within the genus Lipaugus. Based on this result Tijuca was subsumed into Lipaugus.[2][3]

References

  1. BirdLife International (2019). "Lipaugus ater". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T22700718A156223400. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T22700718A156223400.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22700718/156223400. Retrieved 12 November 2021. 
  2. Berv, J.S.; Prum, R.O. (2014). "A comprehensive multilocus phylogeny of the Neotropical cotingas (Cotingidae, Aves) with a comparative evolutionary analysis of breeding system and plumage dimorphism and a revised phylogenetic classification". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 81: 120–136. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.09.001. PMID 25234241. 
  3. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds (July 2021). "Cotingas, manakins, tityras, becards". IOC World Bird List Version 11.2. International Ornithologists' Union. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/cotingas/. 

Further reading

  • Snow, D.W. & Goodwin, D. (1974). "The Black-and-gold Cotinga." The Auk 91(2)

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q264243 entry