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Pheugopedius is a genus of wrens in the family Troglodytidae that are found in Central and South America.
Taxonomy
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
- ^ "Troglodytididae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
- ^ Cabanis, Jean (1850–1851). Museum Heineanum : Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt (in German and Latin). Vol. 1. Halberstadt: R. Frantz. p. 79.
- ^ 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. 562. ISBN 978-0-9568611-2-2.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2023). "Dapple-throats, sugarbirds, fairy-bluebirds, kinglets, hyliotas, wrens & gnatcatchers". IOC World Bird List Version 13.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
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