Biology:Northern chestnut-breasted wren

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Short description: Species of bird

Northern chestnut-breasted wren
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Troglodytidae
Genus: Cyphorhinus
Species:
C. dichrous
Binomial name
Cyphorhinus dichrous
Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1879

The northern chestnut-breasted wren (Cyphorhinus dichrous) is a species of passerine bird in the wren family Troglodytidae that is found in central Colombia, Ecuador and northern Peru. It was formerly considered as a subspecies of the chestnut-breasted wren (Cyphorhinus thoracicus) now renamed the southern chestnut-breasted wren.

Taxonomy

The northern chestnut-breasted wren was formally described in 1879 by the English ornithologists Philip Sclater and Osbert Salvin based on a specimen collected near the town of Remedios in Colombia. They coined the binomial name Cyphorhinus dichrous where the specific epithet is from Ancient Greek meaning "two-coloured".[1][2][3] The northern chestnut-breasted wren was formerly considered as a subspecies of the chestnut-breasted wren (Cyphorhinus thoracicus) now renamed the southern chestnut-breasted wren. The species were split based on the significant vocal differences despite the minor difference in plumage color. The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Sclater, Philip Lutley; Salvin, Osbert (1879). "On birds collected by the late Mr. T. K. Salmon in the state of Antioquia, United States of Colombia". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: 486-550 [492-493, Plate 41]. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28521630. 
  2. ↑ Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds (1960). Check-list of Birds of the World. 9. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 437. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50585. 
  3. ↑ Jobling, James A.. "dichrous". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/key-to-scientific-names/search?q=dichrous. 
  4. ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds (August 2024). "Dapple-throats, sugarbirds, fairy-bluebirds, kinglets, hyliotas, wrens & gnatcatchers". IOC World Bird List Version 14.2. International Ornithologists' Union. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/sugarbirds/. 

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