Order
Coraciiformes
Family
Todidae
Genus
Todus
 
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Version 1.0

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SPECIES

Narrow-billed Tody Todus angustirostris

Lowell C. Overton
Version: 1.0 — Published March 18, 2011

Systematics

Geographic Variation

No geographic variation has been reported in this species.

Subspecies

Related Species

Recent phylogenetic/evolutionary research from mitochondrial DNA analyses indicate that the Broad-billed Tody (Todus subulatus) and Narrow-billed Tody did not share a common ancestor. Rather, the phylogenetic analysis suggests that the Broad-billed Tody is most closely related to the Puerto Rican Tody (Todus mexicanus; Figure 1, Overton and Rhoads 2004) and that Narrow-billed Tody was derived from colonization of Hispaniola of an ancestor closer to Cuban Tody (Todus multicolor), rather than divergence of the Narrow-billed and Broad-billed todies occurring in situ from a single ancestor (Overton and Rhoads 2004). Separation of the Narrow-billed Tody and Broad-billed Tody appears to have occurred approximately 2-3 mya and indicates that these two birds have been distinct species on Hispaniola for quite some time (Overton and Rhoads 2004).

Recommended Citation

Overton, L. C. (2011). Narrow-billed Tody (Todus angustirostris), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.nabtod1.01