Cistothorus, from Ancient Greek κιστος ( kistos), meaning "bush", and θουρος ( thouros), meaning "leaping" or "running through", 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.
[ The type species is the sedge wren ( Cistothorus stellaris).][
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Species
The genus contains five species:
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Sedge wren, short-billed marsh wren, Cistothorus stellaris – northern Mexico, United States and southern Canada
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Mérida wren, Cistothorus meridae – Venezuelan Andes
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Apolinar's wren, Cistothorus apolinari – Colombian Andes
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Grass wren, Cistothorus platensis – central and South America
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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.
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