Wreathed Hornbill

SCI Name:  Rhyticeros undulatus
Protonym:  Buceros undulatus Gen.Zool.[Shaw] 8 pt1 p.26
Taxonomy:  Bucerotiformes / Bucerotidae / Rhyticeros
Taxonomy Code:  wrehor1
Type Locality:  Java.
Author:  Shaw
Publish Year:  1811
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

RHYTICEROS
(Bucerotidae; Ϯ Papuan Hornbill R. plicatus) Gr. ῥυτις rhutis, ῥυτιδος rhutidos  wrinkle; κερας keras, κερως kerōs  horn; Reichenbach's 1849, plate L, admirably shows the wrinkled corrugations on the low flat bill-casque of the Papuan Hornbill. "Rhyticeros Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat. [1849], pl. L. No species; generic details only. Species added, Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, 2, 1854, p. 312. Type, by subsequent designation, Buceros plicatus Latham i.e. Forster. (G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 84.)" (Peters 1945, V, 263-264).
Var. Rhitidoceros, Rhytidoceros.
Synon. Abuceros, Calao, Cassidix, Cranorrhinus.

undulata / undulatus
L. undulatus furnished with wave-like markings < unda wave.
● ex “Ynambú listado” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 331 (Crypturellus).
● ex “Bécasse des savanes de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 895 (Gallinago).
● ex “Ondulé” of Levaillant 1805, pl. 156 (syn. Muscicapa adusta).
● ex “Calao à Casque Festonné” of Levaillant 1801 (Rhyticeros).
● ex “Petit Butor de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 763, and de Buffon 1770-1786, and “Zigzag Bittern” of Latham 1785 (Zebrilus).
● ex “Gobe-mouche de l’île de France” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Undulated Fly-catcher” of Latham 1783 (unident.).
● ex “Perruche Ara à bandeau rouge” of Levaillant 1801-1805 (unident.).