| 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 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.[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.