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.

The genus was erected by the French zoologist Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest in 1805 with the white-crested spadebill (Platyrinchus platyrhynchos) as the type species. The name Platyrhynchos is from the Ancient Greek platus "broad" and rhunkhos "bill".

Species

The genus contains seven species:

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
File:Platyrinchus saturatus Cinnamon-crested Spadebill.jpg	Cinnamon-crested spadebill	Platyrinchus saturatus	Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela
File:Mosquero Pico Chato - panoramio.jpg	Stub-tailed spadebill	Platyrinchus cancrominus	El Salvador to Costa Rica
File:Platyrinchus flavigularis - Yellow-throated Spadebill (cropped).jpg	Yellow-throated spadebill	Platyrinchus flavigularis	Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela
File:Platyrinchus coronatus - Golden-crowned spadebill.jpg	Golden-crowned spadebill	Platyrinchus coronatus	Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela
File:PATINHO (Platyrinchus mystaceus).jpg	White-throated spadebill	Platyrinchus mystaceus	from Costa Rica through South America to western Ecuador, Brazil, and northeastern Argentina
File:Platyrinchus platyrhynchos White-crested Spadebill; Machadinho d'Oeste, Rondônia, Brazil (cropped).jpg	White-crested spadebill	Platyrinchus platyrhynchos	Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela
File:Platyrinchus leucoryphus - Russet-winged Spadebill; Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brazil.jpg	Russet-winged spadebill	Platyrinchus leucoryphus	Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay