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.[1][2][a] The type species is the sedge wren (Cistothorus stellaris).[3][4]
Species
The genus contains five species:[2]
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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.[5]
Notes
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^ Some authorities list the year of publication as 1851.[3][4]
References
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^ Cabanis, Jean (1850). Museum Heineanum : Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt (in German). Vol. 1. Halberstadt: In Commission bei R. Frantz. p. 77.
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^ a b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2017). "Dapple-throats, sugarbirds, fairy-bluebirds, kinglets, hyliotas, wrens & gnatcatchers". World Bird List Version 7.3. International Ornithologists' Union. Archived from the original on 18 April 2018. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
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^ a b Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1960). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 9. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 391.
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^ a b Dickinson, E.C.; Christidis, L., eds. (2014). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Vol. 2: Passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 559. ISBN 978-0-9568611-2-2.
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^ Robbins, Mark B.; Nyári, Árpád S. (2014). "Canada to Tierra del Fuego: species limits and historical biogeography of the Sedge Wren (Cistothorus platensis)". Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 126 (4): 649–662. doi:10.1676/13-162.1. S2CID 86234438.
