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
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 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 edit

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 edit

  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.