Wrinkled Hornbill / Rhabdotorrhinus corrugatus

Wrinkled Hornbill / Rhabdotorrhinus corrugatus

Wrinkled Hornbill

SCI Name:  Rhabdotorrhinus corrugatus
Protonym:  Buceros corrugatus Pl.Col. livr.89 nomen nudum; livr.90 pl.531
Taxonomy:  Bucerotiformes / Bucerotidae /
Taxonomy Code:  wrihor1
Type Locality:  Borneo.
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Publish Year:  1832
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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.

corrugatus
L. corrugatus  wrinkled, corrugated  < corrugare  to wrinkle.