Cantorchilus
| Cantorchilus | |
|---|---|
| Bay wren (Cantorchilus nigricapillus) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Troglodytidae |
| Genus: | Cantorchilus Mann, Barker, Graves, Dingess-Mann & Slater 2006 |
| Type species | |
| Thryothorus longirostris Vieillot, 1819 | |
| 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 12 species. All of the species assigned to it were previously included in the genus Thryothorus.