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==Taxonomy== The marsh wren was [[Species description|described]] by the Scottish-American ornithologist [[Alexander Wilson (ornithologist)|Alexander Wilson]] in 1810 and given the [[binomial name]] ''Certhia palustris''.<ref>{{ cite book | last=Wilson | first=Alexander | author-link= Alexander Wilson (ornithologist) | year=1810 | title= American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States | volume=2 | place=Philadelphia | publisher=Bradford and Inskeep | pages=58–60 , Plate 12 fig. 4 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46337236 }}</ref> The current [[genus]] ''[[Cistothorus]]'' was introduced by the German ornithologist [[Jean Cabanis]] in 1850.<ref>{{ cite book | last= Cabanis | first=Jean | author-link=Jean Cabanis | year=1850 | title= Museum Heineanum : Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt | volume=1 | language=de | place=Halberstadt | publisher=In Commission bei R. Frantz | page=77 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49584456 }}</ref> There are 15 recognised [[subspecies]].<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2017 | title=Dapple-throats, sugarbirds, fairy-bluebirds, kinglets, hyliotas, wrens & gnatcatchers | work=World Bird List Version 7.3 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/sugarbirds/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=29 December 2017 }}</ref> Etymology: from Greek 'κιστος' (''cistos'', "a shrub") and 'θουρος' (''thouros'', "leaping, or running through") and Latin 'palustris' ("marshy").<ref>{{cite book |last1=McGillivray, Semenchuck |first1=William Bruce, Glen Peter |title=The Federation of Alberta Naturalists Field Guide to Alberta Birds |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1u9JDa7eKmoC&q=cistothorus+etymology&pg=PA222 |year=1998 |publisher=Federation of Alberta Naturalists |isbn=9780969613428 |access-date=22 October 2019}}</ref>
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