Tanzanian Red-billed Hornbill

Tanzanian Red-billed Hornbill / Tockus ruahae

Tanzanian Red-billed Hornbill

Here the details of the Tanzanian Red-billed Hornbill named bird below:

SCI Name:  Tockus ruahae
Protonym:   Ann.TransvaalMus. 39 p.4
Taxonomy:  Bucerotiformes / Bucerotidae /
Taxonomy Code:  trbhor1
Type Locality:  
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Publish Year:  2002
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

TOCKUS
(Bucerotidae; Ϯ Red-billed Hornbill T. erythrorhynchus) "Les nègres du Sénégal lui ont donné le nom de tock, & nous avons cru devoir de lui conserver" (de Buffon 1770-1783) (cf. "Buceros galeatus [= Rhinoplax vigil] ... This species is called Toko ...  in Sumatra" (Raffles 1822)); "Sous-genre. TOCK; Tockus.  Bec recourbé, élevé, très-comprimé, à arête vive, à bords lisses et dentelés.   1. CALAO TOCK; Buceros erythrorhynchus, Briss., pl. 46, fig. 2. Enl., 260; Levaill., pl. 238; Buceros nasutus, Var. B.  ...  Habite le Sénégal" (Lesson 1830); "Tockus Lesson, Traité d'Orn., livr. 4, 1830, p. 252. Type, by subsequent designation, Buceros erythrorhynchus Brisson i.e. Temminck. (G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 50.)" (Peters 1945, V, 254).
Var. Toccus, Tocus (variant French name "Toc"), Poccus.
Synon. Alophius, Nototockus, Xanthorhynchus.

ruahae
Ruaha River, Tanganyika (= Tanzania).