Writhe-billed Hornbill

Writhe-billed Hornbill / Rhabdotorrhinus waldeni

Writhe-billed Hornbill

Here the details of the Writhe-billed Hornbill named bird below:

SCI Name:  Rhabdotorrhinus waldeni
Protonym:  Craniorrhinus waldeni J.Linn.Soc.LondonZool. 13 p.156
Taxonomy:  Bucerotiformes / Bucerotidae /
Taxonomy Code:  wrbhor1
Type Locality:  Mountains west of Ilo Ilo, Panay.
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Publish Year:  1877
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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).