Cantorchilus
| Cantorchilus | |
|---|---|
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| Bay wren (Cantorchilus nigricapillus) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Troglodytidae |
| Genus: | Cantorchilus Mann, Barker, Graves, Dingess-Mann & Slater 2006 |
| Species | |
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Cantorchilus is a genus of birds in the wren family. Established by Nigel I. Mann, F. Keith Barker, Jeff A. Graves, Kimberly A. Dingess-Mann and Peter J. B. Slater in 2006, it contains 10 species.[1] All of the species assigned to it were previously included in the genus Thryothorus.[2]
Species
- Stripe-breasted wren (Cantorchilus thoracicus)
- Stripe-throated wren (Cantorchilus leucopogon)
- Plain wren (Cantorchilus modestus)
- Canebrake wren (Cantorchilus (modestus) zeledoni)
- Riverside wren (Cantorchilus semibadius)
- Bay wren (Cantorchilus nigricapillus)
- Superciliated wren (Cantorchilus superciliaris)
- Buff-breasted wren (Cantorchilus leucotis) (probably not monophyletic)
- Fawn-breasted wren (Cantorchilus guarayanus)
- Long-billed wren (Cantorchilus longirostris)
- Grey wren (Cantorchilus griseus)
References
- ↑ "ITIS Report: Cantorchilus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
- ↑ Mann, Nigel I.; Dingess, Kimberly A.; Barker, F. Keith; Graves, Jeff A.; Slater, Peter J. B. (January 2009). "A Comparative Study of Song Form and Duetting in Neotropical Thryothorus Wrens". Behaviour 146 (1): 1–43. doi:10.1163/156853908x390913. JSTOR 40296085.
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