Spizixos

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Spizixos semitorques.jpg

| image_caption = Collared finchbill (Spizixos semitorques)

| taxon = Spizixos

| authority = Blyth, 1845

| type_species = Spizixos canifrons
(Crested finchbill)

| type_species_authority = Blyth, 1845

| range_map = Spizixos distribution map.png

| synonyms = * Spizixus

}}

Spizixos is a genus of passerine birds in the bulbul family Pycnonotidae.

Taxonomy

The genus Spizixos was introduced in 1845 by the English zoologist Edward Blyth to accommodate the crested finchbill.{{ cite journal | last=Blyth | first=Edward | author-link=Edward Blyth | year=1845 | title=Notices and descriptions of various new or little known species of birds (continued) | journal=Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal | volume=14, Part 2 | issue=164 | pages=546–602 [571] | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40127346 }} The word Spizixos combines the Ancient Greek spiza meaning "finch" with the genus name Ixos that was introduced by Coenraad Jacob Temminck in 1825.{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=363 }}

The genus contains two species:{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=January 2021 | title=Bulbuls | work=IOC World Bird List Version 11.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/bulbuls/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=27 June 2021}}

Crested finchbill (Spizixos canifrons)
Collared finchbill (Spizixos semitorques)

References

Category:Bird genera

Category:Taxa named by Edward Blyth

Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot