Spadebill | |
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Stub-tailed Spadebill (Platyrinchus cancrominus) | |
Scientific 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
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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]
The genus contains seven species:[5]
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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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 |