Damara Red-billed Hornbill / Tockus damarensis
Damara Red-billed Hornbill
SCI Name:
Protonym: Lophoceros damarensis Ibis p.58,66
Taxonomy: Bucerotiformes / Bucerotidae / Tockus
Taxonomy Code: drbhor1
Type Locality: Otjimbinque, Damaraland.
Author: Shelley
Publish Year: 1888
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
TOCKUS
(Bucerotidae; Ϯ Red-billed Hornbill T. erythrorhynchus) "Les nègres du Sénégal lui ont donné le nom de tock, & nous avons cru devoir de lui conserver" (de Buffon 1770-1783) (cf. "Buceros galeatus [= Rhinoplax vigil] ... This species is called Toko ... in Sumatra" (Raffles 1822)); "Sous-genre. TOCK; Tockus. Bec recourbé, élevé, très-comprimé, à arête vive, à bords lisses et dentelés. 1. CALAO TOCK; Buceros erythrorhynchus, Briss., pl. 46, fig. 2. Enl., 260; Levaill., pl. 238; Buceros nasutus, Var. B. ... Habite le Sénégal" (Lesson 1830); "Tockus Lesson, Traité d'Orn., livr. 4, 1830, p. 252. Type, by subsequent designation, Buceros erythrorhynchus Brisson i.e. Temminck. (G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 50.)" (Peters 1945, V, 254).
Var. Toccus, Tocus (variant French name "Toc"), Poccus.
Synon. Alophius, Nototockus, Xanthorhynchus.
damarensis
Damaraland, Namibia.
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)