''Cyphorhinus'' is a genus 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 family Troglodytidae. Established by

Jean Cabanis Jean Louis Cabanis (8 March 1816 – 20 February 1906) was a German ornithologist. Cabanis was born in Berlin to an old Huguenot family who had moved from France. Little is known of his early life. He studied at the University of Berlin from 18 ...

in 1844, it contains the following species: *

Song wren The song wren (''Cyphorhinus phaeocephalus'') is a species of bird in the family Troglodytidae. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. Taxonomy and systematics At one time the song wren and the mus ...

(''Cyphorhinus phaeocephalus'') * Chestnut-breasted wren (''Cyphorhinus thoracicus'') *

Musician wren The musician wren or organ wren (''Cyphorhinus arada'') is a species of wren named for its elaborate song. It is native to the Amazon rainforest in South America, from the lowlands into the foothills of the Andes. Taxonomy and systematics At ...

(''Cyphorhinus arada'') The name ''Cyphorhinus'' is a combination of the

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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''.

References

Troglodytidae Higher-level bird taxa restricted to the Neotropics Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Troglodytidae-stub