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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| 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
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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
editThe 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
edit- ^ "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.