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==Taxonomy== The rufous-throated dipper was [[species description|described]] by the German ornithologist [[Jean Cabanis]] in 1882 and given the [[binomial name]] ''Cinclus schulzii''.<ref name=cabanis>{{ cite journal | last=Cabanis | first=Jean | author-link=Jean Cabanis | year=1882 | title=Sitzung vom 6 November 1882 | language=de | journal=Ornithologisches Centralblatt | volume=7 | pages=182β183 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8740044 }}</ref> The [[type locality (biology)|type locality]] is the mountain of [[Cerro Bayo]] in northern Argentina.<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=379 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14481054 }}</ref> The [[specific epithet]] ''schulzii'' was chosen to honour the German zoologist Friedrich W. Schulz (1866-1933) who had collected the specimen.<ref name=cabanis/><ref name=hbwkey>{{cite web | last=Jobling | first=J.A. | year=2019 | title= Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology | editor1-last=del Hoyo | editor1-first=J. | editor2-last=Elliott | editor2-first=A. | editor3-last=Sargatal | editor3-first=J. | editor4-last=Christie | editor4-first=D.A. | editor5-last=de Juana | editor5-first=E. | work=Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive | publisher=Lynx Edicions | url=https://www.hbw.com/dictionary/definition/schultzei-schulzei-schulzi-schulzii | access-date=9 February 2019 }}</ref> The species 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=2019 | title=Dippers, leafbirds, flowerpeckers, sunbirds | work=World Bird List Version 9.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/dippers/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=9 February 2019 }}</ref> Of the five species now placed in the genus, a molecular genetic study has shown that the rufous-throated dipper is most closely related to the other South American species, the [[white-capped dipper]] (''Cinclus leucocephalus'').<ref>{{ cite journal | last=Voelker | first=Gary | year=2002 | title=Molecular phylogenetics and the historical biogeography of dippers (''Cinclus'') | journal=Ibis | volume=144 | issue=4 | pages=577β584 | doi=10.1046/j.1474-919X.2002.00084.x }}</ref>
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