Sharpbill (Oxyruncus cristatus) [XC292651]
by Jeremy Minns from Red Trail, Reserva Ecologica Guapia\u00e7u, RJ, Brazil (song)
Sharpbill (Oxyruncus cristatus) [XC838515]
by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA from Fazenda S\u00e3o Miguel, Itaj\u00e1, Goi\u00e1s, Brazil (song)
Subspecies
Often placed in a separate, monotypic family Oxyruncidae or, sometimes, in Tyrannidae, but DNA-DNA hybridization data indicate that it is related to other cotingids. Subspecies phelpsi and tocantinsi possibly indistinguishable from hypoglaucus. Species' distribution extremely disjunct, perhaps relictual. Birds observed in north-western Colombia, south-eastern Ecuador, Peru, north-western Bolivia and southern and north-eastern Brazil of uncertain racial identity, thought possibly to represent one or more undescribed subspecies.
The following 6 subspecies are recognised:
frater (Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1868) - Costa Rica and western Panama (east to Veraguas).
brooksi Bangs & Barbour, 1922 - Eastern Panama.
phelpsi Chapman, 1939 - Mountains of southern and south-eastern Venezuela (except Mt Roraima) and adjacent parts of Brazil and Guyana.
hypoglaucus (Salvin & Godman, 1883) - South-eastern Venezuela (Mt Roraima), the Guianas and north-eastern Brazil (Amapá).
tocantinsi Chapman, 1939 - Southern Pará (from eastern side of lower R Tocantins south-west to Serra dos Carajás, on western side), in Brazil.
cristatus (Swainson, 1821) - South-eastern Brazil (southern Goiás, Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo south to Santa Catarina), eastern Paraguay and extreme north-eastern Argentina (northern Misiones).
BirdLife International Species Factsheet