Southern Ground-Hornbill / Bucorvus leadbeateri
Southern Ground-Hornbill
SCI Name:
Protonym: Buceros Leadbeateri Trans.Linn.Soc.London 14 p.460,note
Taxonomy: Bucerotiformes / Bucorvidae / Bucorvus
Taxonomy Code: soghor1
Type Locality: 'Africa interiori Septentrionali'' [sic]. 3
Author: Vigors
Publish Year: 1825
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
DEFINITIONS
BUCORVUS
(Bucerotidae; Ϯ Northern Ground Hornbill B. abyssinicus) Portmanteau of genera Buceros Linnaeus, 1758, hornbill, and Corvus Linnaeus, 1758, raven; “In other cases, where the commencement of both the simple words is retained in the compound, a fault is still committed by cutting off too much of the radical and vital portions, as is the case in Bucorvus (from Bucorvus and Corvus)" (Strickland Code 1842); "III.e Sous-genre. NACIBA; Bucorvus. Bec très-long, peu recourbé, à mandibules très-comprimées; les narines couvertes par deux faisceaux de poils rigides, sétacés; cils épais autour de l'œil; joues et devant du cou entièrement nus; casque creux, tronqué et ouvert en avant; tarses très-longs. Observ. Les calaos de ce sous-genre recherchent les charognes, les insectes, dans les champs de teffs. 16. CALAO CARONCULÉ; Buceros abyssinicus, Gm. ... Habite l'Abyssinie, où on le nomme, suivant Bruce, teïr-el-Naciba, ou oiseau de la destinée." (Lesson 1830); "Bucorvus Lesson, Traité d'Orn., livr. 4, 1830, p. 256. Type, by monotypy, Buceros abyssinicus Boddaert." (Peters, 1945, V, p. 272). The ground hornbills have been treated as a separate family Bucorvidae, or as a subfamily or clade of the Bucerotidae.
Var. Bucervus.
Synon. Bucorax, Tmetoceros.
leadbeateri / leadbeaterii
● Benjamin Leadbeater, Sr. (1773-1851) English natural history dealer in London 1800-1837 (Bucorvus, Cacatua).
● "Nous avons dédié cette espèce a M. Leadbeater, naturaliste anglais distingué, qui possède l'une des plus belles collections d'oiseaux de cette famille" (Bourcier 1843) (cf. Benjamin Leadbeater, Sr. (1773-1851) and John Leadbeater, Sr. (1804-1856) English natural history dealers, agents and taxidermists) (Heliodoxa).
● John Leadbeater, Jr. (1832-1888) English natural history dealer and agent in Melbourne, taxidermist at National Mus., Melbourne (syn. Lichenostomus cassidix, syn. Opopsitta diophthalma macleayana, syn. Pardalotus punctatus xanthopyga).
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)