Ocyceros Gingalensis Bird

Ocyceros Gingalensis Bird

Ocyceros Gingalensis Bird

English Name:  Sri Lanka Gray Hornbill
Latin Name:  Ocyceros gingalensis
Protonym:  Buceros Gingalensis Gen.Zool.[Shaw] 8 pt1 p.37
Taxonomy:  Bucerotiformes / Bucerotidae / Ocyceros
Taxonomy Code:  ceghor1
Type Locality:  Ceylon.
Author:  Shaw
Publish Year:  1811
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

OCYCEROS
(Bucerotidae; Ϯ Indian Grey Hornbill O. birostris) Gr. οξυκερως oxukerōs  with pointed horns  < οξυς oxus  sharp, pointed; κερας keras, κερως kerōs  horn; "Ocyceros* ginginianus, Shaw.  ...  * I propose this subgeneric name for the present species and Tickellii, Blyth; Bonaparte's name meniceros, of 1854, having been previously otherwise applied by Gloger in 1842" (Hume 1873); "Ocyceros Hume, Nests and Eggs Indian Bds., 1873, p. 113. New name for Meniceros Bonaparte, 1854, not of Gloger, 1841. Type, by subsequent designation, Buceros birostris Scopoli. (Elliot, Monogr. Bucerot., pt. 10, 1882, p. xvii [= intro., p. xvii of volume]." (Peters 1945, V, 254).
Synon. Gingala.

gingala / gingalensis
French Singala  Ceylon / Sri Lanka (Sanskrit Singhala  Ceylon / Sri Lanka).
● ex “Calao Gingala” of Levaillant 1801: “Cette espèce habite l’île de Ceylan” (Ocyceros).