• Phylogenetic placement: Tyranni: Tyrannida
• Distribution: North, Central and South America
• Number of extant genera: 16 (17)
• Number of extant species: 55

Traditional genus-level classification of extant Pipridae following the AviList checklist v2025. (link) The number of subspecies is given in parentheses. 

[Notes: (1) The phylogenetic arrangement follows Harvey et al. 2020 and Leite et al. 2021, whose parallel analyses produced congruent results. (2) Since chrysolophum must be excluded from Neopelma to render the genus monophyletic (Harvey et al. 2020: Leite et al. 2021), van Els et al. 2023 assigned it to its own genus, Protopelma.]

References

Capurucho JMG, Ashley MV, Ribas CC, and Bates JM (2018), Connecting Amazonian, Cerrado, and Atlantic forest histories: Paraphyly, old divergences, and modern population dynamics in tyrant-manakins (Neopelma/Tyranneutes, Aves: Pipridae), Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 127, 696-705. (abstract)

Castro-Astor IN, Cracrafr J, Tello JG, Alves MAS, Mauck WM, Aleixo A, Duca C, and Carnaval AC (2024), Phylogeography, historical population demography, and climatic modeling of two bird species uncover past connections between Amazonia and the Atlantic Forest, Ecol. Evol. 14, e:70587. (pdf) [note: studied were Ceratopipra rubrocapilla and Pseudopipra pipra]

Harvey MG, Bravo GA, Claramunt S, Cuervo AM, Derryberry GE, Battilana J, Seeholzer GF, McKay JS, O'Meara BC, Faircloth BC, Edwards SV, Perez-Eman J, Moyle RG, Sheldon FH, Aleixo A, Smith BT, Chesser RT, Silveira LF, Cracraft J, Brumfield RT, and Derryberry EP (2020), The evolution of a tropical biodiversity hotspot, Science 370, 1343-48. (pdf) (hi-res tree) [note: focussing on suboscine passerines (Tyranni), i.e. Eurylaimides and Tyrannides]

Kirwan GM, David N, Gregory SMS, Jobling JA, Steinheimer FD, and Brito GRR (2016), The mistaken manakin: a new genus-group name for Parus pipra Linnaeus, 1758 (Aves: Passeriformes: Pipridae), Zootaxa 4121, 89-94. (abstract)

Leite RN, Kimball RT, Braun EL, Derryberry EP, Hosner PA, Derryberry GE, Anciães M, McKay JS, Aleixo A, Ribas CC, Brumfield RT, and Cracraft J (2021), Phylogenomics of manakins (Aves: Pipridae) using alternative locus filtering strategies based on informativeness, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 155, e:107013. (abstract)

Moncrieff AE, Faircloth BC, and Brumfield RT (2022), Systematics of Lepidothrix manakins (Aves: Passeriformes: Pipridae) using RADcap markers, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 173, e:107525. (abstract)

Ohlson JI, Fjeldså J, and Ericson PGP (2013), Molecular phylogeny of the manakins (Aves: Passeriformes: Pipridae), with a new classification and the description of a new genus, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 69, 796-804. (abstract)

Taylor LU, and Prum RO (2025), Developmental evolution of social signals in the delayed plumage maturation of manakins (Aves: Pipridae), bioRxiv preprint (pdf) [note: phylogeny adopted from Harvey et al. 2020, but mistakenly swapping positions of Machaeropterus and Pseudopipra]

van Els P, Harvey MG,Capurucho JMG, Brumfield RT, Whitney BM, and Pacheco JF (2023), Systematics of the Neopelminae (Aves: Passeriformes: Pipridae) with description of a new genus, Zootaxa 5361, 135-141. (link) [note: no abstract available]