Coragyps

{{Short description|Genus of New World vulture }}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Anhinga Trail (6884801351).jpg

| image_caption = Black vulture (Coragyps atratus)

| taxon = Coragyps

| authority = Le Maout, 1853

| type_species = Vultur atratus

| type_species_authority = Bechstein, 1793

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• Coragyps atratus
• †Coragyps occidentalis
• †Coragyps seductus

}}

Coragyps is a genus of New World vulture that contains the black vulture (Coragyps atratus) and two extinct relatives.

The genus Coragyps was introduced in 1853 by the French naturalist Emmanuel Le Maout to accommodate the black vulture.{{ cite book | last=Le Maout | first=Emmanuel | author-link=Emmanuel Le Maout | date=1853 | title=Histoire naturelle des oiseaux : suivant a classification de M. Isidore Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, avec l'indication de leurs moeurs et de leurs rapports avec les arts, le commerce et l'agriculture | language=French | location=Paris | publisher=L. Curmer | pages=[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53548566 57], [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53548577 66]}}{{ cite journal | last=Gregory | first=Steven M.S. | date=1998 | title=The correct citation of Coragyps (Cathartinae) and Ardeotis (Otididae) | journal=Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club | volume=118 | issue=2 | pages=126–127 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40058622 }} The name combines the Ancient Greek korax meaning "raven" with gups meaning "vulture".{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=118 | url=https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n118/mode/1up }}

One extinct species is the 'western' black vulture, Coragyps occidentalis, a larger ancestral relative of the modern species which lived in North America during much of the Pleistocene epoch; however, genetic evidence indicates that C. occidentalis may not be a true species of its own, as it is nested within the modern black vulture.{{cite journal

| last =Fisher

| first =Harvey L

| title =The skulls of the Cathartid vultures

| journal=Condor

| volume =46

| issue =6

| pages =272–296

| year =1944

| url =http://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/condor/v046n06/p0272-p0296.pdf

| doi =10.2307/1364013

| access-date = November 3, 2007 | jstor =1364013

}}{{cite journal

| last =Hertel

| first =Fritz

| title =Ecomorphological indicators of feeding behavior in Recent and fossil raptors

| journal=Auk

| volume =12

| issue =4

| pages =890–903

| year =1995

| url =http://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/auk/v112n04/p0890-p0903.pdf

| access-date = November 3, 2007

| doi =10.2307/4089021 | jstor =4089021

| hdl =10211.3/138737

| hdl-access =free

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The other is the Cuban black vulture, Coragyps seductus, known from the Pleistocene of Cuba.{{Cite journal|last=Suárez|first=William|date=May 22, 2020|title=The fossil avifauna of the tar seeps Las Breas de San Felipe, Matanzas, Cuba|url=https://mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4780.1.1|journal=Zootaxa|language=en|volume=4780|issue=1|pages=zootaxa.4780.1.1|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4780.1.1|pmid=33055754|s2cid=219510089 |issn=1175-5334}}