Cinclodes
Genus of birds
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Taxonomy
The genus Cinclodes was introduced in 1840 by the English zoologist George Robert Gray. The name combines the Ancient Greek kinklos, a word for an unknown waterside bird, with -oidēs meaning "resembling". In 1855 Gray specified the type species as the dark-bellied cinclodes, a species that had been described in 1889 by Gmelin under the binomial name Motacilla patagonica.
The genus contains 15 extant species:
In addition, a fossil species, Cinclodes major, has been described for the Pleistocene from Argentina.
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