The St. Vincent wren (Troglodytes musicus) is a very small passerine bird in the wren family Troglodytidae that is found on the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent. The name troglodytes means "hole dweller", and is a reference to the bird's tendency to disappear into crevices when hunting insects or to seek shelter. It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the house wren, now renamed the northern house wren (Troglodytes aedon).
| St. Vincent wren | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Troglodytidae |
| Genus: | Troglodytes |
| Species: | T. musicus
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| Binomial name | |
| Troglodytes musicus (Lawrence, 1878)
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Taxonomy
editThe St. Vincent wren was formally described in 1878 by the American ornithologist George Newbold Lawrence based on specimens collected by the naturalist Frederick A. Ober on the island of Saint Vincent. Lawrence coined the binomial name Thryothorus musicus where the specific epithet is Latin meaning "musical".[1][2][3] The St. Vincent wren was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the house wren, now renamed the northern house wren (Troglodytes aedon). It is now recognised as a separate species based on differences differences in vocalizations, plumage, ecology and genetics.[4][5][6][7] The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.[7]
References
edit- ^ Lawrence, George Newbold (1877). "Descriptions of seven new species of birds from the island of St. Vincent, West Indies". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1 (published 1878): 146-152 [148].
- ^ Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1960). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 9. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 424.
- ^ Jobling, James A. "musicus". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
- ^ Oberholser, Harry C. (1904). "A review of the wrens of the genus Troglodytes". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 27 (1354): 197-210 [209]. doi:10.5479/si.00963801.27-1354.197.
- ^ Klicka, J.; Epperly, K.; Smith, B.T.; Spellman, G.M.; Chaves, J.A.; Escalante, P.; Witt, C.C.; Canales-del-Castillo, R.; Zink, R.M. (2023). "Lineage diversity in a widely distributed New World passerine bird, the House Wren". Ornithology. 140 (3): ukad018. doi:10.1093/ornithology/ukad018.
- ^ Chesser, R.T.; Billerman, S.M.; Burns, K.J.; Cicero, C.; Dunn, J.L.; Hernández-Baños, B.E.; Jiménez, R.A.; Johnson, O.; Kratter, A.W.; Mason, N.A.; Rasmussen, P.C.; Remsen, J.V.J. (2024). "Sixty-fifth Supplement to the American Ornithological Society's Check-list of North American Birds". Ornithology. 141 (3): ukae019. doi:10.1093/ornithology/ukae019.
- ^ a b 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. Retrieved 22 October 2024.