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. Published in 8 livraisons between 1830 and 1831. For dates see: The type species was designated as the common tody-flycatcher by George Robert Gray in 1840. The name combines the genus Todus introduced by Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760 with the Latin rostrum meaning "bill".
It contains the following seven species: 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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