Cistothorus
Genus of birds
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Cistothorus is a genus of small passerine birds in the wren family. The name Cistothorus is from the Ancient Greek words κιστος (kistos), meaning "bush", and θουρος (thouros), meaning "leaping" or "running through".
| Cistothorus | |
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| Marsh wren (Cistothorus palustris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Troglodytidae |
| Genus: | Cistothorus Cabanis, 1851 |
| Type species | |
| Troglodytes stellaris Naumann, J.F., 1823 | |
| Species | |
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Taxonomy
The genus Cistothorus was circumscribed by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis in 1850.[1][2][a] The type species is the sedge wren (Cistothorus stellaris).[3][4]
Species
The genus contains five species:[2]
- Sedge wren, Cistothorus stellaris – northern Mexico, United States and southern Canada
- Mérida wren, Cistothorus meridae – Venezuelan Andes
- Apolinar's wren, Cistothorus apolinari – Colombian Andes
- Grass wren, Cistothorus platensis – central and South America
- Marsh wren, Cistothorus palustris – Mexico, United States and southern Canada
The sedge wren and the grass wren were formerly treated as conspecific. They were split based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014.[5]
