Spadebill

Spadebill
Stub-tailed Spadebill (Platyrinchus cancrominus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tyrannidae
Genus: Platyrinchus
Desmarest, 1805
Type species
Platyrinchus fuscus = Todus platyrhynchos
Desmarest, 1805

Spadebills are birds of the genus Platyrinchus, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús), meaning "flat", and ῥύγχος (rhúnkhos), meaning "bill", in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae. They live in Central and South America and have broad, flat, triangular bills.

The genus was erected by the French zoologist Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest in 1805 with the white-crested spadebill (Platyrinchus platyrhynchos) as the type species.

Species

The genus contains seven species:

ImageScientific nameCommon nameDistribution
Cinnamon-crested spadebillPlatyrinchus saturatusBrazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela
Stub-tailed spadebillPlatyrinchus cancrominusEl Salvador to Costa Rica
Yellow-throated spadebillPlatyrinchus flavigularisColombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela
Golden-crowned spadebillPlatyrinchus coronatusBolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela
White-throated spadebillPlatyrinchus mystaceusfrom Costa Rica through South America to western Ecuador, Brazil, and northeastern Argentina
White-crested spadebillPlatyrinchus platyrhynchosBolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela
Russet-winged spadebillPlatyrinchus leucoryphusArgentina, Brazil, and Paraguay

References

  1. ↑ "Platyrinchidae". Howard & Moore Checklist Online. Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-24.
  2. ↑ Jobling, J.A. (2019). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "platyrhynchos". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive: Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
  3. ↑ Desmarest, Anselme Gaëtan (1805). Histoire naturelle des tangaras, des manakins et des todiers (in French). Paris. Livre 4 page 2, Plate 72 text.
  4. ↑ Traylor, Melvin A. Jr, ed. (1979). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 8. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. pp. 106–107.
  5. ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 29 June 2019.