Spizixos

Spizixos is a genus of passerine birds in the bulbul family Pycnonotidae.

Spizixos
Collared finchbill (Spizixos semitorques)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Pycnonotidae
Genus:	Spizixos Blyth, 1845
Type species
Spizixos canifrons (Crested finchbill) Blyth, 1845
Synonyms
Spizixus

Taxonomy

The genus Spizixos was introduced in 1845 by the English zoologist Edward Blyth to accommodate the crested finchbill.^[1] The word Spizixos combines the Ancient Greek spiza meaning "finch" with the genus name Ixos that was introduced by Coenraad Jacob Temminck in 1825.^[2]

The genus contains two species:^[3]

• Crested finchbill (Spizixos canifrons)
• Collared finchbill (Spizixos semitorques)