''Eurylaimus'' is a genus of broadbills (family

Eurylaimidae The Eurylaimidae are a family of suboscine passerine birds that occur from the eastern Himalayas to Indonesia and the Philippines. The family previously included the sapayoa from the Neotropics, the asities from Madagascar, and the Calyptomeni ...

) found in Southeast Asia.

Taxonomy

The genus ''Eurylaimus'' was introduced in 1821 by the American naturalist

Thomas Horsfield Thomas Horsfield (May 12, 1773 – July 24, 1859) was an American physician and natural history, naturalist who worked extensively in Indonesia, describing numerous species of plants and animals from the region. He was later a curator of the Eas ...

to accommodate the

banded broadbill The (') is a species of bird in the typical broadbill family Eurylaimidae found in Mainland Southeast Asia and the Greater Sunda Islands. It is sometimes split into two species, one including only the nominate subspecies, ''E. j. javanicus'' ...

(''Eurylaimus javanicus''). The name means ‘broad throat’, from the Greek ' (, ‘broad, wide’) and ' (, ‘throat’).

Extant species

Two extant species are recognized:

Former species

Formerly, some authorities also considered the following species (or subspecies) as species within the genus ''Eurylaimus'': *

Wattled broadbill The wattled broadbill or Mindanao broadbill (''Sarcophanops steerii'') is a species of bird in the family Eurylaimidae where it was previously conspecific to the Visayan broadbill. It It is endemic to the islands of Mindanao, Basilan, Dinagat an ...

(as ''Eurylaimus steerii'') *

Visayan broadbill The Visayan broadbill (''Sarcophanops samarensis'') is a species of bird in the family Eurylaimidae where it was previously conspecific with the wattled broadbill. It is endemic to the islands of Samar, Leyte and Bohol in the central Philippine ...

( as ''Eurylaimus samarensis'') *

Vanikoro flycatcher The Vanikoro flycatcher (''Myiagra vanikorensis'') is a species of monarch flycatcher in the family Monarchidae. It has a slightly disjunct distribution, occurring on Vanikoro island (in the southern Solomon archipelago) and in Fiji. Taxonomy an ...

(as ''Platyrhynchos vanikorensis'') *

Broad-billed flycatcher The broad-billed flycatcher (''Myiagra ruficollis'') is a species of bird in the family Monarchidae. It is found in northern Australia, the Lesser Sunda Islands and southern New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist ...

(as ''Platyrhynchos ruficollis'') *

Satin flycatcher The satin flycatcher (''Myiagra cyanoleuca'') is a species of bird in the family Monarchidae. Males stand out with their blue-black feathers contrasting their white bellies, and the females with their bright orange throats. It breeds mostly in s ...

(as ''Platyrhynchos cyanoleucus'')

References

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