Southern Red-billed Hornbill / Tockus rufirostris
Southern Red-billed Hornbill
SCI Name:
Protonym: Buceros rufirostris Oefv.Vet.-Akad.Forh. 7 p.108
Taxonomy: Bucerotiformes / Bucerotidae / Tockus
Taxonomy Code: srbhor1
Type Locality:
Author: Sundevall
Publish Year: 1850
IUCN Status:
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.
rufirostris
L. rufus red, rufous; -rostris -billed < rostrum beak.
● "44. PSITTACUS. ... rufirostris. 13. P. macrourus viridis, rostro pedibusque rubris, rectricibus apice cærulescentibus. Mus. Ad. Fr. 2. p. . . Psittacus minor macrourus totus viridis. Aldr. ornith. l. 2. c. 13. Raj. av. 33. Sloan. jam. 2. p. 297. Psittacus minor viridis, cauda longiore. Edw. av. 175. t. 175. Tujaputepjuba. Marcgr. bras. 206. n. 3. Will. ornith. 116. Raj. av. 34. Habitat in America." (Linnaeus 1758) (?syn. Conuropsis carolinensis).
● ex “Cassique vert de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 328 (syn. Psarocolius viridis).
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)