Todirostrum

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Todirostrum
Common tody-flycatcher (Todirostrum cinereum)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tyrannidae
Genus: Todirostrum
Lesson
, 1831
Type species
Todus cinereus
Linnaeus, 1766
Species

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Todirostrum is a

Tyrannidae
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Taxonomy and species list

The genus Todirostrum was erected in 1831 by the French naturalist René Lesson.[1] The type species was designated as the common tody-flycatcher by George Robert Gray in 1840.[2][3] The name combines the genus Todus introduced by Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760 with the Latin rostrum meaning "bill".[4]

It contains the following seven species:[5]

Image Name Common name Distribution
Todirostrum maculatum Spotted tody-flycatcher Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela
Todirostrum poliocephalum Yellow-lored tody-flycatcher or grey-headed tody-flycatcher Brazil, occurring from Southern Bahia southwards to Santa Catarina
Todirostrum viridanum Maracaibo tody-flycatcher Venezuela
Todirostrum nigriceps Black-headed tody-flycatcher Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela
Todirostrum pictum Painted tody-flycatcher eastern-southeastern Venezuela and the northeastern states of Brazil of the Amazon Basin
Todirostrum cinereum Common tody-flycatcher or black-fronted tody-flycatcher southern Mexico to northwestern Peru, eastern Bolivia and southern Brazil.
Todirostrum chrysocrotaphum Yellow-browed tody-flycatcher southern Amazon Basin of Brazil, also Amazonian Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia

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