''Cantorchilus'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
of
bird
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...
s in the
wren
Wrens are a family of brown passerine birds in the predominantly New World family Troglodytidae. The family includes 88 species divided into 19 genera. Only the Eurasian wren occurs in the Old World, where, in Anglophone regions, it is commonly ...
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.
All of the species assigned to it were previously included in the genus ''
Thryothorus
The Carolina wren (''Thryothorus ludovicianus'') is a common species of wren that is a resident in the eastern half of the United States of America, the extreme south of Ontario, Canada, and the extreme northeast of Mexico. Severe winters restri ...
''.
Species
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Stripe-breasted wren (''Cantorchilus thoracicus'')
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Stripe-throated wren (''Cantorchilus leucopogon'')
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Cabanis's wren
Cabanis's wren (''Cantorchilus modestus'') is a species of bird in the family Troglodytidae. It is found in Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua.
Taxonomy and systematics
Cabanis's wren, with what are ...
(''Cantorchilus modestus'')
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Canebrake wren (''Cantorchilus zeledoni'')
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Isthmian wren (''Cantorchilus elutus'')
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Riverside wren (''Cantorchilus semibadius'')
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Bay wren (''Cantorchilus nigricapillus'')
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Superciliated wren (''Cantorchilus superciliaris'')
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Buff-breasted wren (''Cantorchilus leucotis'') (probably not
monophyletic
In cladistics for a group of organisms, monophyly is the condition of being a clade—that is, a group of taxa composed only of a common ancestor (or more precisely an ancestral population) and all of its lineal descendants. Monophyletic gro ...
)
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Fawn-breasted wren (''Cantorchilus guarayanus'')
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Long-billed wren (''Cantorchilus longirostris'')
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Grey wren (''Cantorchilus griseus'')
References
Bird genera
Troglodytidae
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