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== Taxonomy == The sedge wren was [[Species description|described]] by the German ornithologist [[Johann Friedrich Naumann]] in 1823 under the [[binomial name]] ''Troglodytes stellaris''. The [[type locality (biology)|type locality]] is Carolina.<ref>{{ cite book | last=Naumann | first=Johann Friedrich | author-link=Johann Friedrich Naumann | year=1823 | title= Johann Andreas Naumann's Naturgeschichte der Vögel Deutschlands | volume=3 | place= Leipzig | publisher=G. Fleischer | at=Table facing p. 724 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33763649 }}</ref><ref>{{ cite book | editor1-last=Mayr | editor1-first=Ernst | editor1-link=Ernst Mayr | editor2-last=Greenway | editor2-first=James C. Jr | year=1960 | title=Check-list of Birds of the World | volume=9 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=391 | url= https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14481066 }}</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> The sedge wren and the [[grass wren]] were formerly treated as [[conspecific]]. They were split based on the results of a [[molecular phylogenetic]] study published in 2014.<ref name=robbins>{{cite journal | last1=Robbins | first1=Mark B. | last2=Nyári | first2=Árpád S. | year=2014 | title=Canada to Tierra del Fuego: species limits and historical biogeography of the Sedge Wren (''Cistothorus platensis'') | journal=Wilson Journal of Ornithology | volume=126 | issue=4 | pages=649–662 | doi=10.1676/13-162.1 | s2cid=86234438 }}</ref><ref name=ioc/> The sedge wren is [[monotypic]].<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> The sedge wren was formerly known as the short-billed marsh wren but was renamed to better distinguish it from the [[marsh wren]].<ref name=":0" />
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