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''Neopelma'' is a genus of
bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class (biology), class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the Oviparity, laying of Eggshell, hard-shelled eggs, a high Metabolism, metabolic rate, a fou ...
in the family
Pipridae The manakins are a family, Pipridae, of small suboscine passerine birds. The group contains 55 species distributed through the American tropics. The name is from Middle Dutch "little man" (also the source of the different bird name '' mannikin' ...
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Etymology

''Neopelma'': ''neos'' "new, different"; πελμα ''pelma'', πελματος ''pelmatos'' "sole of the foot".


Species

It contains the following species:


References

Bird genera Taxa named by Philip Sclater Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Pipridae-stub