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Cotingas (Cotingidae)

White-browed Purpletuft (Iodopleura isabellae) - HBW 9, p. 87

French: Cotinga d’Isabelle German: Weißbrauen-Zwergkotinga Spanish: Cotinguita Cejiblanco
Other common names: White-browed Cotinga

Taxonomy: Iodopleura Isabellae Parzudaki, 1847, San Carlos, Río Negro, south Venezuela.
Genus has been suggested, on basis of morphological analysis, as possibly belonging to an assemblage containing Laniisoma and genera currently placed in Pipridae (Schiffornis) and Tyrannidae (Laniocera, Xenopsaris, Pachyramphus); traditional placement within present family considered preferable, pending further study. Species is closely related to, and forming a superspecies with, I. fusca; possibly conspecific, but differences comparable to those between other species pairs within family and treatment as separate species seems justified. Two subspeci.. View all taxonomy...

Taxonomy: Iodopleura Isabellae Parzudaki, 1847, San Carlos, Río Negro, south Venezuela.
Genus has been suggested, on basis of morphological analysis, as possibly belonging to an assemblage containing Laniisoma and genera currently placed in Pipridae (Schiffornis) and Tyrannidae (Laniocera, Xenopsaris, Pachyramphus); traditional placement within present family considered preferable, pending further study. Species is closely related to, and forming a superspecies with, I. fusca; possibly conspecific, but differences comparable to those between other species pairs within family and treatment as separate species seems justified. Two subspecies recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

  • isabellae Parzudaki, 1847 - W Amazon Basin and upper R Orinoco drainage in S Venezuela, SE Colombia, E Ecuador, E Peru, extreme N Bolivia (Pando), and Brazil (E to W Pará).
  • paraensis Todd, 1950 - E Amazon Basin in Brazil (E Para E from R Tocantins, S to N Goiás).

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