Cyphorhinus

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

Cyphorhinus, from Ancient Greek κύφος (kúphos), meaning "hump" or "hunch", and ῥίς (rhís), meaning "nose" (or, in this case, bill), is a genus of passerine birds in the wren family Troglodytidae that are found in South and Central America.

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