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    Lophoceros

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    Lophoceros
    Crowned hornbill, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa .jpg
    Crowned hornbill, Lophoceros alboterminatus
    Scientific classification e
    Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Chordata
    Class: Aves
    Order: Bucerotiformes
    Family: Bucerotidae
    Genus: Lophoceros
    Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1833
    Type species
    Buceros nusutus
    (Linnaeus), 1766
    Species

    See text.

    Lophoceros is a genus of birds in the hornbill family, Bucerotidae, which are native to Africa.

    Taxonomy

    The genus Lophoceros was introduced in 1833 by the German naturalists Wilhelm Hemprich and Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg to accommodate Buceros, Lophoceros, forskålii.[1] This is now considered as a junior synonym of the nominate subspecies of the African grey hornbill (Lophoceros nasutus nasutus).[2] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek lophos meaning "crest" with kerōs meaning "horn".[3]

    The species now placed in this genus were formerly included in the genus Tockus. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2013 found that Tockus was divided by a deep phylogenetic split into two major groups. The genus Lophoceros was therefore resurrected to contain one of these groups.[4][5]

    Species

    The genus contains 7 species:[5]

    Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
    Crowned hornbill, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa .jpg Lophoceros alboterminatus Crowned hornbill northeastern Africa
    Lophoceros bradfieldi.jpg Lophoceros bradfieldi Bradfield's hornbill northern Botswana, southern Angola and eastern Zimbabwe
    African Pied Hornbill - Kakum NP - Ghana 14 S4E2286 (16177823316) cropped.jpg Lophoceros fasciatus African pied hornbill The Gambia to western Uganda and northern Angola
    Tockus hemprichii -Ethiopia-8 (1).jpg Lophoceros hemprichii Hemprich's hornbill Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, and Uganda
    Tockus pallidirostris subsp pallidirostris, oog van Cuitorivier, Birding Weto, a.jpg Lophoceros pallidirostris Pale-billed hornbill Angola, DRC, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia.
    Tockus nasutus -near Sawela Lodge, Lake Naivasha, Kenya -female-8.jpg Lophoceros nasutus African grey hornbill Sub-Saharan Africa and into Arabia
    Red-billed Dwarf Hornbill - Ghana S4E3165 (16222579837).jpg Lophoceros camurus Red-billed dwarf hornbill Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, and Uganda.

    References

    1. ↑ Hemprich, Wilhelm; Ehrenberg, Christian Gottfried (1828) (in Latin). Symbolae physicae. 1: Avium Part 1. Berolini [Berlin]: Ex Officina Academica. Pages are not numbered. Text and Note 8. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48510060.  Although the year 1828 is printed on the title page, the volume was not published until 1833. See: Dickinson, E.C.; Overstreet, L.K.; Dowsett, R.J.; Bruce, M.D. (2011). Priority! The Dating of Scientific Names in Ornithology: a Directory to the literature and its reviewers. Northampton, UK: Aves Press. pp. 91-92. ISBN 978-0-9568611-1-5. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267763194. 
    2. ↑ The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 1: Non-passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. 2013. p. 283, Note 8. ISBN 978-0-9568611-0-8. 
    3. ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 230. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4. https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n230/mode/1up. 
    4. ↑ Gonzalez, J.-C.T.; Sheldon, B.C.; Collar, N.J.; Tobias, J.A. (2013). "A comprehensive molecular phylogeny for the hornbills (Aves: Bucerotidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 67 (2): 468-483. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2013.02.012.  See also the correction: Gonzalez, J.-C.T.; Sheldon, B.C.; Collar, N.J.; Tobias, J.A. (2013). "Corrigendum to “A comprehensive molecular phylogeny for the hornbills (Aves: Bucerotidae)” [Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 67 (2013) 468–483]". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 68 (3): 715. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2013.05.008. 
    5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds (January 2022). "Mousebirds, Cuckoo Roller, trogons, hoopoes, hornbills". IOC World Bird List Version 12.1. International Ornithologists' Union. https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/mousebirds/. Retrieved 10 June 2022. 

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