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Lophoceros

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

Lophoceros
Crowned hornbill, Lophoceros alboterminatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Bucerotiformes
Family: Bucerotidae
Genus: Lophoceros
Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1833
Type species
Buceros nusutus
(Linnaeus, 1766)
Species

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Taxonomy

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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

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The genus contains 8 species:[5]

Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
  Lophoceros alboterminatus Crowned hornbill northeastern Africa
  Lophoceros bradfieldi Bradfield's hornbill northern Botswana, southern Angola and eastern Zimbabwe
  Lophoceros fasciatus Congo pied hornbill Nigeria to northern Angola and Uganda
  Lophoceros semifasciatus West African pied hornbill Senegal and Gambia to southern Nigeria
  Lophoceros hemprichii Hemprich's hornbill Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, and Uganda
  Lophoceros pallidirostris Pale-billed hornbill Angola, DRC, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia.
  Lophoceros nasutus African grey hornbill Sub-Saharan Africa and into Arabia
  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

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  1. ^ Hemprich, Wilhelm; Ehrenberg, Christian Gottfried (1828). Symbolae physicae (in Latin). Vol. 1: Avium Part 1. Berolini [Berlin]: Ex Officina Academica. Pages are not numbered. Text and Note 8. 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.
  2. ^ Dickinson, E.C.; Remsen, J.V. Jr., eds. (2013). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Vol. 1: Non-passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. 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.
  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. PMID 23438388. 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. ^ a b 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. Retrieved 10 June 2022.


 

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