Writhe-billed Hornbill / Rhabdotorrhinus waldeni
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Writhe-billed Hornbill
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Protonym: Craniorrhinus waldeni J.Linn.Soc.LondonZool. 13 p.156
Taxonomy: Bucerotiformes / Bucerotidae / Rhabdotorrhinus
Taxonomy Code: wrbhor1
Type Locality: Mountains west of Ilo Ilo, Panay.
Author: Sharpe
Publish Year: 1877
IUCN Status: Critically Endangered
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.
waldeni
Col. Arthur Hay Viscount Walden and 9th Marquis of Tweeddale (1824-1878) British Army, traveller, naturalist (syn. Aethopyga saturata sanguinipectus, syn. Lanius tigrinus, Rhabdotorrhinus, Sibia).
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)
