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{{Short description|Genus of New World vulture }}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Anhinga Trail (6884801351).jpg
| image_caption =  [[Black vulture]] ''(Coragyps atratus)''
| taxon = Coragyps
| authority = [[Jean Emmanuel Maurice Le Maout|Le Maout]], 1853
| type_species = ''[[Black vulture|Vultur atratus]]''
| type_species_authority = [[Johann Matthäus Bechstein|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]].<ref>{{ 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]}}</ref><ref>{{ 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 }}</ref> The name combines the [[Ancient Greek]] ''korax'' meaning "raven" with ''gups'' meaning "vulture".<ref>{{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 }}</ref>
 
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.<ref>{{cite journal
 | last =Fisher
 | first =Harvey L
 | title =The skulls of the Cathartid vultures
 | journal=[[Condor (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
 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal
 | last =Hertel
 | first =Fritz
 | title =Ecomorphological indicators of feeding behavior in Recent and fossil raptors
 | journal=[[Auk (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
 }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=Ericson |first1=Per G. P. |last2=Irestedt |first2=Martin |last3=Zuccon |first3=Dario |last4=Larsson |first4=Petter |last5=Tison |first5=Jean-Luc |last6=Emslie |first6=Steven D. |last7=Götherström |first7=Anders |last8=Hume |first8=Julian P. |last9=Werdelin |first9=Lars |last10=Qu |first10=Yanhua |date=2022-08-23 |title=A 14,000-year-old genome sheds light on the evolution and extinction of a Pleistocene vulture |journal=Communications Biology |language=en |volume=5 |issue=1 |page=857 |doi=10.1038/s42003-022-03811-0 |pmid=35999361 |pmc=9399080 |issn=2399-3642|doi-access=free }}</ref> 
The other is the Cuban black vulture, ''[[Coragyps seductus]]'', known from the Pleistocene of [[Cuba]].<ref>{{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 |journal=Zootaxa|language=en|volume=4780|issue=1|pages=1–53 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4780.1.1|pmid=33055754|s2cid=219510089 |issn=1175-5334}}</ref>

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[[Category:Bird genera]]
[[Category:Bird genera with one living species]]
[[Category:Cathartidae]]