Cantorchilus | |
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Bay wren (Cantorchilus nigricapillus) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Troglodytidae |
Genus: |
Cantorchilus Mann, Barker, Graves, Dingess-Mann & Slater 2006 |
Species | |
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Cantorchilus is a genus of birds in the wren family. Established by Nigel I. Mann, F. Keith Barker, Jeff A. Graves, Kimberly A. Dingess-Mann and Peter J. B. Slater in 2006, it contains 10 species. All of the species assigned to it were previously included in the genus Thryothorus.