Cyphorhinus

Cyphorhinus is a genus of passerine birds in the wren family Troglodytidae that are found in South and Central America.

Cyphorhinus
Musician wren (Cyphorhinus arada)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Troglodytidae
Genus:	Cyphorhinus Cabanis, 1844
Type species
Cyphorhinus thoracicus (southern chestnut-breasted wren) Tschudi, 1844

Taxonomy

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]

• Northern chestnut-breasted wren, Cyphorhinus dichrous (split from C. thoracicus)
• Southern chestnut-breasted wren, Cyphorhinus thoracicus
• Musician wren, Cyphorhinus arada
• Song wren, Cyphorhinus phaeocephalus