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Spadebill

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Spadebill
Stub-tailed Spadebill (Platyrinchus cancrominus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tyrannidae
Genus: Platyrinchus
Desmarest, 1805
Type species
Platyrinchus fuscus[1] = Todus platyrhynchos
Desmarest, 1805

The spadebills are a genus, Platyrinchus, of Central and South American passerine birds in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae. They 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.[2][3] The name Platyrhynchos is from the Ancient Greek platus "broad" and rhunkhos "bill".[4]

Species

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The genus contains seven species:[5]

Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
Cinnamon-crested spadebill Platyrinchus saturatus Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela
Stub-tailed spadebill Platyrinchus cancrominus El Salvador to Costa Rica
Yellow-throated spadebill Platyrinchus flavigularis Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela
Golden-crowned spadebill Platyrinchus coronatus Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela
White-throated spadebill Platyrinchus mystaceus from Costa Rica through South America to western Ecuador, Brazil, and northeastern Argentina
White-crested spadebill Platyrinchus platyrhynchos Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela
Russet-winged spadebill Platyrinchus leucoryphus Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay

References

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  1. ^ "Platyrinchidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-24.
  2. ^ Desmarest, Anselme Gaëtan (1805). Histoire naturelle des tangaras, des manakins et des todiers (in French). Paris. Livre 4 page 2, Plate 72 text.
  3. ^ Traylor, Melvin A. Jr, ed. (1979). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 8. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. pp. 106–107.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 29 June 2019.