Spadebill
| Spadebill | |
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| Stub-tailed Spadebill (Platyrinchus cancrominus) | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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
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 |
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Stub-tailed spadebill | Platyrinchus cancrominus | El Salvador to Costa Rica |
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Yellow-throated spadebill | Platyrinchus flavigularis | Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela |
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Golden-crowned spadebill | Platyrinchus coronatus | Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela |
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White-throated spadebill | Platyrinchus mystaceus | from Costa Rica through South America to western Ecuador, Brazil, and northeastern Argentina |
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White-crested spadebill | Platyrinchus platyrhynchos | Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela |
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Russet-winged spadebill | Platyrinchus leucoryphus | Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay |
References
- ^ "Platyrinchidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-24.
- ^ Desmarest, Anselme Gaëtan (1805). Histoire naturelle des tangaras, des manakins et des todiers (in French). Paris. Livre 4 page 2, Plate 72 text.
- ^ Traylor, Melvin A. Jr, ed. (1979). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 8. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. pp. 106–107.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
