Sulawesi Hornbill

SCI Name:  Rhabdotorrhinus exarhatus
Protonym:  Buceros exarhatus Pl.Col. livr.36 pl.211
Taxonomy:  Bucerotiformes / Bucerotidae / Rhabdotorrhinus
Taxonomy Code:  sulhor1
Type Locality:  Celebes.
Author:  Temminck
Publish Year:  1823
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

RHABDOTORRHINUS
(Bucerotidae; Ϯ Sulawesi Hornbill R. exarhatus) Gr. ῥαβδωτος rhabdōtos  striped  < ῥαβδος rhabdos  streak; ῥις rhis, ῥινος rhinos  nose; "32. Rhabdotorrhinus exaratus (Temm.)  ...  Wir haben dieser Art einen neuen Gattungsnamen gegeben; die Gründe dafür werden wir in unserem in Vorbreitung begriffenen Werke über die Vögel der Celébes-Region darlegen" (Meyer & Wiglesworth 1895); "Rhabdotorrhinus Meyer and Wiglesworth, Bds. Celebes, 1, 1898, p. xi, p. 235. Type, by monotypy, Buceros exharatus Temminck." (Peters 1945, V, 262). The Celebes or Sulawesi Hornbill and its congeners were formerly included in Penelopides and in Cranobrontes.
Synon. Cranobrontes.

exarhatus
L. exaratus  furrowed, ploughed up  < exarare  to plough up  < arare  to plough.

SUBSPECIES

Sulawesi Hornbill (Dwarf)
SCI Name: Rhabdotorrhinus exarhatus exarhatus
exarhatus
L. exaratus  furrowed, ploughed up  < exarare  to plough up  < arare  to plough.

Sulawesi Hornbill (Sanford's)
SCI Name: Rhabdotorrhinus exarhatus sanfordi
sanfordi
Dr Leonard Cutler Sanford (1868-1950) US zoologist, Trustee of AMNH, organised Whitney-Sanford South Pacific expeditions, sponsor of AMNH Mt Hagen Expedition (subsp. Archboldia papuensis, subsp. Asio flammeus, syn. Cinnyrorhyncha longirostra, subsp. Crateroscelis robusta, Cyornis, Diomedea, subsp. Erythrura trichroa, Haliaeetus, subsp. Lagopus muta, subsp. Micrathene whitneyi, subsp. Mino kreffti, subsp. Myzomela cardinalis, subsp. Pachycephala orioloides, syn. Perisoreus canadensis nigricapillus, subsp. Rhabdotorrhinus exarhatus, syn. Rhamphomantis megarhynchus).