Pheugopedius
Appearance
Pheugopedius | |
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Rufous-breasted wren (Pheugopedius rutilus) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Troglodytidae |
Genus: | Pheugopedius Cabanis, 1851 |
Type species | |
Pheugopedius genibarbis[1] Cabanis, 1851
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Pheugopedius is a genus of wrens in the family Troglodytidae that are found in Central and South America.
Taxonomy
[edit]The genus Pheugopedius was introduced in 1851 by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis to accommodate a single species, Pheugopedius genibarbis a junior synonym of Thryothorus genibarbis Swainson, 1837, the moustached wren.[2][3]
The genus contains the following 12 species:[4]
- Black-throated wren (Pheugopedius atrogularis)
- Rufous-breasted wren (Pheugopedius rutilus)
- Moustached wren (Pheugopedius genibarbis)
- Coraya wren (Pheugopedius coraya)
- Plain-tailed wren (Pheugopedius euophrys)
- Black-bellied wren (Pheugopedius fasciatoventris)
- Sooty-headed wren (Pheugopedius spadix)
- Speckle-breasted wren (Pheugopedius sclateri)
- Happy wren (Pheugopedius felix)
- Inca wren (Pheugopedius eisenmanni)
- Spot-breasted wren (Pheugopedius maculipectus)
- Whiskered wren (Pheugopedius mystacalis)
References
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