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
Stub-tailed Spadebill (Platyrinchus cancrominus)
Scientific 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

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

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.