| Cyphorhinus | |
|---|---|
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| Musician wren (Cyphorhinus arada) | |
Scientific 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.
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]
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