Manakin

This article is about the bird. For the model used for clothing, see Mannequin. For the anatomical model used in education, see Manikin. For the village, see Manakin-Sabot, Virginia.

Manakins
Male long-tailed manakin (Chiroxiphia linearis)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Parvorder: Tyrannida
Family: Pipridae
Rafinesque, 1815
Species

Many, see text

Manakin range

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 mannekijn "little man" (also the source of the different bird name mannikin).[1]

  1. ^ New Oxford American Dictionary (2nd ed., 2005), p. 1032.