Rhabdotorrhinus Waldeni Bird

Rhabdotorrhinus Waldeni Bird

Rhabdotorrhinus Waldeni Bird

English Name:  Writhe-billed Hornbill
Latin Name:  Rhabdotorrhinus waldeni
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).