| Todirostrum | |
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| Common tody-flycatcher (Todirostrum cinereum) | |
Scientific 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 genus of Neotropical birds in the New World flycatcher family Tyrannidae.
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 | 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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