Cyphorhinus is a genus of passerine birds in the wren family Troglodytidae that are found in South and Central America.
| Cyphorhinus | |
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| Musician wren (Cyphorhinus arada) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Troglodytidae |
| Genus: | Cyphorhinus Cabanis, 1844 |
| Type species | |
| Cyphorhinus thoracicus (southern chestnut-breasted wren) Tschudi, 1844
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Taxonomy
editThe genus Cyphorhinus was introduced in 1844 by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis to accommodate a single species Cyphorhinus thoracicus (southern chestnut-breasted wren) that was described at the same time by Johann Jakob von Tschudi and is therefore considered as the type species.[1][2] The genus name is a combination of the Greek words kuphos, meaning "hump" or "hunch" and rhis or rhinos, meaning "nose" (or, in this case, bill). It has been emended from the earlier incarnation Cyphorhina.[3]
The genus contains four species:[4]
- Northern chestnut-breasted wren, Cyphorhinus dichrous (split from C. thoracicus)
- Southern chestnut-breasted wren, Cyphorhinus thoracicus
- Musician wren, Cyphorhinus arada
- Song wren, Cyphorhinus phaeocephalus
References
edit- ^ Cabanis, Jean (1844). "Avium conspectus quae in Republica Pernana reperiuntur et pleraeqne observatae vel collectae sunt in itinere". Archiv für Naturgeschichte (in Latin). 10 (1): 262–317 [282].
- ^ Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1960). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 9. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 437.
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 129. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2024). "Dapple-throats, sugarbirds, fairy-bluebirds, kinglets, hyliotas, wrens & gnatcatchers". IOC World Bird List Version 14.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 26 October 2024.
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