Spizixos
Genus of birds
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Spizixos is a genus of passerine birds in the bulbul family Pycnonotidae.
| Spizixos | |
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| Collared finchbill (Spizixos semitorques) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Pycnonotidae |
| Genus: | Spizixos Blyth, 1845 |
| Type species | |
| Spizixos canifrons (Crested finchbill) Blyth, 1845 | |
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| Synonyms | |
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Taxonomy
The genus Spizixos was introduced in 1845 by the English zoologist Edward Blyth to accommodate the crested finchbill.[1] The word Spizixos combines the Ancient Greek spiza meaning "finch" with the genus name Ixos that was introduced by Coenraad Jacob Temminck in 1825.[2]
The genus contains two species:[3]
- Crested finchbill (Spizixos canifrons)
- Collared finchbill (Spizixos semitorques)
