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Spadebill
| 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 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.[2][3] The name Platyrhynchos is from the Ancient Greek platus "broad" and rhunkhos "bill".[4]
- ^ "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.
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