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
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