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Southern House Wren
Troglodytes musculus · Family Troglodytidae
Troglodytes musculus
Family Troglodytidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Troglodytidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 1,830,408
- Countries and territories with records
- 31
About this species
This species has 1,830,408 occurrence records from 31 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Brazil (15.8%), Colombia (15.7%), Argentina (13.9%), Costa Rica (12.2%) and Chile (10%); together they account for 67.6% of the total. In Brazil, this species accounts for 1.2% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Troglodytes musculus combines the genus name Troglodytes with the species epithet musculus. The Warbla app catalog lists 14 species of the genus Troglodytes; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Troglodytes aedon, Troglodytes troglodytes and Troglodytes hiemalis.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 92 species of the family Troglodytidae. This species ranks 6th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Thryothorus ludovicianus. Its record count is 4.2 times the family average (435,441). The family Troglodytidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.