Poole, Karen E.
Platyrinchus
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Spadebills are birds of the genus Platyrinchus, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús), meaning "flat", and ῥύγχος (rhúnkhos), meaning "bill", in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae. They live in Central and South America and have broad, flat, triangular bills.
Species
KINGDOM
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderDecapoda
- FamilyEpialtidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 31
- With media
- 3
- Family
- Tyrannidae
- Collections
- LSUMZ, DMNH, CLO, CM
- Recorded in
- Peru, Mexico, Costa Rica, Brazil, Ecuador
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Spadebills are birds of the genus Platyrinchus, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús), meaning "flat", and ῥύγχος (rhúnkhos), meaning "bill", in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae. They live in Central and South America and 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Platyrinchus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.