---
title: "Puertoricaanse todie"
description: "Todus mexicanus — Vogels. The Puerto Rican tody (Todus mexicanus), locally known in Spanish as San Pedrito (\"little Saint Peter\"), is a bird endemic to the main island of Puerto Rico."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/puerto-rican-tody
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Puertoricaanse todie

> Todus mexicanus — Vogels. The Puerto Rican tody (Todus mexicanus), locally known in Spanish as San Pedrito ("little Saint Peter"), is a bird endemic to the main island of Puerto Rico.

- Scientific name: *Todus mexicanus*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos)
- iNaturalist observations: 950
- Wikidata: [Q960512](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q960512)
- iNaturalist taxon: [2121](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/2121)

## Names

- en: Puerto Rican Tody
- de: Gelbflankentodi
- es: San Pedrito
- fr: Todier de Porto Rico
- nl: Puertoricaanse todie
- pt: Todi-de-porto-rico
- pl: Płaskodziobek długodzioby

## Countries with the most observations

PR (911)

## Summary

The Puerto Rican tody (Todus mexicanus), locally known in Spanish as San Pedrito ("little Saint Peter"), is a bird endemic to the main island of Puerto Rico. In 2022, the tody was approved as the official national bird of Puerto Rico by the legislative assembly. However, the proposal did not advance, largely due to the scientific name of the bird which erroneously identifies it as a native of Mexico. In 2023, the assembly approved a petition to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) seeking the renaming of the tody as Todus borinquensis.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_tody

## Photo

![Puertoricaanse todie](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/puerto-rican-tody/medium.jpg)

Photo: Alan Jeon · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/332131617

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/puerto-rican-tody?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).