Stub-tailed Spadebill
Platyrinchus cancrominusSclater, PL; Salvin, O, 1860
English (US) Stub-tailed Spadebill
The Stub-tailed Spadebill (Platyrinchus cancrominus) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Tyrannidae (Tyrant Flycatchers and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: tropical southern Mexico to western Costa Rica and northwestern PanamaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Platyrinchus cancrominus
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Stub-tailed Spadebill
- Described by
- Sclater, PL; Salvin, O, 1860
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Platyrhynchus cancrominus
- Described by
- Sclater, PL; Salvin, O, 1860
- Type locality
- 'In prov. Verae Pacis regione calida, et in Mexico Merid. statu Verae Crucis'; specimens from Choctun [= Choctum, Guatemala] listed as the types [= cotypes] by Sclater, 1862, Cat. Coll. Amer. Birds, p. 207
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London pt.28, no.2 p.299
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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