Todirostrum
Todirostrum is a bird genus in the New World flycatcher family Tyrannidae. Established by René Primevère Lesson in 1831, 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 |
The name Todirostrum is a combination of the genus name Todus and the Latin word rostrum, meaning "beak".