Rhyticeros Narcondami Bird
Rhyticeros Narcondami Bird
English Name:
Latin Name:
Protonym: Rhyticeros narcondami Str.Feath. 1 p.411
Taxonomy: Bucerotiformes / Bucerotidae / Rhyticeros
Taxonomy Code: narhor1
Type Locality: Narcondam Island.
Author: Hume
Publish Year: 1873
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.
narcondami
Narcondam Island, Bay of Bengal.
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)