Todirostrum Explained
Todirostrum is a genus of Neotropical birds in the New World flycatcher family Tyrannidae.
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 |
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| Todirostrum maculatum | | 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 | | Venezuela |
| Todirostrum nigriceps | | Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela |
| Todirostrum pictum | | 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 | | southern Amazon Basin of Brazil, also Amazonian Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia |
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Notes and References
- Book: Lesson, René . René Lesson . 1831 . Traité d'Ornithologie, ou Tableau Méthodique . French . Paris . F.G. Levrault . 384 (livraison 5) . Published in 8 livraisons between 1830 and 1831. For dates see: Book: Dickinson . E.C. . Edward C. Dickinson . Overstreet . L.K. . Dowsett . R.J. . Bruce . M.D. . 2011 . Priority! The Dating of Scientific Names in Ornithology: a Directory to the literature and its reviewers . Northampton, UK . Aves Press . 978-0-9568611-1-5 . 119 .
- Book: Gray, George Robert . George Robert Gray . 1840 . A List of the Genera of Birds : with an Indication of the Typical Species of Each Genus . London . R. and J.E. Taylor . 31 .
- Book: Traylor . Melvin A. Jr . Melvin Alvah Traylor Jr. . 1979 . Check-List of Birds of the World . 8 . Museum of Comparative Zoology . Cambridge, Massachusetts . 87 .
- Book: Jobling, James A. . 2010. The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . Christopher Helm . London . 978-1-4081-2501-4 . 387 .
- Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . Rasmussen . Pamela . Pamela Rasmussen . 2020 . Tyrant flycatchers . IOC World Bird List Version 10.2 . International Ornithologists' Union . 29 November 2020 .
