Cyphorhinus

Cyphorhinus
Musician wren (Cyphorhinus arada)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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

Cyphorhinus is a genus of passerine birds in the wren family Troglodytidae that are found in South and Central America.

Taxonomy

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The 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]

References

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  1. ^ 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].
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 129. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  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.