Spadebill
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.
| Spadebill | |
|---|---|
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| White-throated spadebill (Platyrinchus mystaceus) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Tyrannidae |
| Genus: | Platyrinchus Desmarest, 1805 |
The genus was erected by the French zoologist Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest in 1805 with the white-crested spadebill (Platyrinchus platyrhynchos) as the type species.[1][2] The name Platyrhynchos is from the Ancient Greek platus "broad" and rhunkhos "bill".[3]
The genus contains seven species:[4]
- Cinnamon-crested spadebill, Platyrinchus saturatus
- Stub-tailed spadebill, Platyrinchus cancrominus
- Yellow-throated spadebill, Platyrinchus flavigularis
- Golden-crowned spadebill, Platyrinchus coronatus
- White-throated spadebill, Platyrinchus mystaceus
- White-crested spadebill, Platyrinchus platyrhynchos
- Russet-winged spadebill, Platyrinchus leucoryphus
References
- 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. Volume 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.
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