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Cistothorus

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| name = Cistothorus

| image = Cistothorus stellaris, Isle Royale.jpg

| image_caption = Grass wren (Cistothorus platensis)

| taxon = Cistothorus

| authority = Cabanis, 1851

| type_species = Troglodytes stellaris

| type_species_authority = Naumann, J.F., 1823

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text

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Cistothorus is a genus of small passerine birds in the family Troglodytidae.

Taxonomy

The genus Cistothorus was circumscribed by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis in 1850.{{ cite book | last= Cabanis | first=Jean | author-link=Jean Cabanis | year=1850 | title= Museum Heineanum : Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt | volume=1 | language=German | place=Halberstadt | publisher=In Commission bei R. Frantz | page=77 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49584456 }}{{efn|Some authorities list the year of publication as 1851.{{ cite book | editor1-last=Mayr | editor1-first=Ernst | editor1-link=Ernst Mayr | editor2-last=Greenway | editor2-first=James C. Jr | year=1960 | title=Check-list of Birds of the World | volume=9 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=391 | url= https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14481066 }}{{ cite book | editor-last1=Dickinson | editor-first1=E.C. | editor1-link=Edward C. Dickinson | editor-last2=Christidis | editor-first2=L. | editor2-link=Leslie Christidis | year=2014 | title=The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World | volume=2: Passerines | edition=4th | place=Eastbourne, UK | publisher=Aves Press | isbn=978-0-9568611-2-2 | page=559 }}}} The type species is the sedge wren (Cistothorus stellaris).

= Species =

The genus contains five species:{{cite web | editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2017 | title=Dapple-throats, sugarbirds, fairy-bluebirds, kinglets, hyliotas, wrens & gnatcatchers | work=World Bird List Version 7.3 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/sugarbirds/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=29 December 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180418211310/http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/sugarbirds/ | archive-date=18 April 2018 | url-status=dead }}

  • Sedge wren, short-billed marsh 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, long-billed 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.{{cite journal | last1=Robbins | first1=Mark B. | last2=Nyári | first2=Árpád S. | year=2014 | title=Canada to Tierra del Fuego: species limits and historical biogeography of the Sedge Wren (Cistothorus platensis) | journal=Wilson Journal of Ornithology | volume=126 | issue=4 | pages=649–662 | doi=10.1676/13-162.1 | s2cid=86234438 }}

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Category:Troglodytidae

Category:Bird genera

Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

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