Cistothorus
Appearance
Cistothorus | |
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Grass wren (Cistothorus platensis) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Troglodytidae |
Genus: | Cistothorus Cabanis, 1851 |
Type species | |
Troglodytes stellaris Naumann, J.F., 1823
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Species | |
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Cistothorus is a
Troglodytidae
.
Taxonomy
The genus Cistothorus was circumscribed by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis in 1850.[1][2][a] The type species is the sedge wren (Cistothorus stellaris).[3][4]
Species
The genus contains five species:[2]
- Sedge wren, short-billed marsh wren, Cistothorus stellaris – northern Mexico, United States and southern Canada
- Mérida wren, Cistothorus meridae – Venezuelan Andes
- Apolinar's wren, Cistothorus apolinari – Colombian Andes
- Grass wren, Cistothorus platensis – central and South America
- Marsh wren, long-billed marsh wren, Cistothorus palustris – Mexico, United States and southern Canada
The sedge wren and the grass wren were formerly treated as
molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014.[5]
Notes
References
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- ^ Cabanis, Jean (1850). Museum Heineanum : Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt (in German). Vol. 1. Halberstadt: In Commission bei R. Frantz. p. 77.
- ^ a b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2017). "Dapple-throats, sugarbirds, fairy-bluebirds, kinglets, hyliotas, wrens & gnatcatchers". World Bird List Version 7.3. International Ornithologists' Union. Archived from the original on 18 April 2018. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
- ^ a b Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1960). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 9. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 391.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-9568611-2-2.
- S2CID 86234438.