White-crested Hornbill
White-crested Hornbill
Here the details of the White-crested Hornbill named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Buceros albo-cristatus Proc.Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia 3(1847) p.330
Taxonomy: Bucerotiformes / Bucerotidae / Horizocerus
Taxonomy Code: whchor3
Type Locality: St. Paul''s River, Liberia.
Author: Cassin
Publish Year: 1848
IUCN Status:
DEFINITIONS
HORIZOCERUS
(Bucerotidae; Ϯ Western Little Hornbill H. hartlaubi) Gr. ὁριζω horizō to limit (i.e. short); κερας keras, κερως kerōs horn; "HORIZOCERUS, 3 new genus. Genus generi "Lophoceros" dicto affine, sed cauda valde cuneata, rostro prope recto, hujus cornu minimo, acute carinato, facile distinguendum. Type.— Toccus hartlaubi Gould. The strongly wedge-shaped tail, comparatively straight bill, with its very small, sharply keeled casque, to say nothing of conspicuous color differences, appear fully to justify the creation of a separate genus for the species commonly known as Lophoceros hartlaubi. ... 3 ὁριζω, limito; κερας, cornu." (Oberholser 1900); "Horizocerus Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 22, 1899, p. 28. Type, by original designation, Toccus hartlaubi Gould." (Peters, 1945, V, p. 254).
Var. Orizocerus.
Synon. Ortholophus, Tropicranus.
albocristata / albocristatus
L. albus white; cristatus crested, plumed < crista crest, plume.
SUBSPECIES
White-crested Hornbill (White-cheeked)
SCI Name: Horizocerus albocristatus albocristatus/macrourus
HORIZOCERUS
(Bucerotidae; Ϯ Western Little Hornbill H. hartlaubi) Gr. ὁριζω horizō to limit (i.e. short); κερας keras, κερως kerōs horn; "HORIZOCERUS, 3 new genus. Genus generi "Lophoceros" dicto affine, sed cauda valde cuneata, rostro prope recto, hujus cornu minimo, acute carinato, facile distinguendum. Type.— Toccus hartlaubi Gould. The strongly wedge-shaped tail, comparatively straight bill, with its very small, sharply keeled casque, to say nothing of conspicuous color differences, appear fully to justify the creation of a separate genus for the species commonly known as Lophoceros hartlaubi. ... 3 ὁριζω, limito; κερας, cornu." (Oberholser 1900); "Horizocerus Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 22, 1899, p. 28. Type, by original designation, Toccus hartlaubi Gould." (Peters, 1945, V, p. 254).
Var. Orizocerus.
Synon. Ortholophus, Tropicranus.
White-crested Hornbill (Dark-cheeked)
SCI Name: Horizocerus albocristatus cassini
cassini
John Cassin (1813-1869) US ornithologist, lithographer, co-owner of Bowen & Co. (Lithographers), Philadelphia (syn. Aethia pygmaea, subsp. Falco peregrinus, Horizocerus, Malimbus, subsp. Megascops guatemalae, syn. Molothrus bonariensis cabanisii, Muscicapa, Neafrapus, subsp. Poliocrania exsul, Psarocolius, syn. Todiramphus chloris vitiensis, Veniliornis) (see cassinii).
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)