Western long-tailed hornbill
| Western long-tailed hornbill | |
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| T. a. albocristatus at Central Park Zoo, USA | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Bucerotiformes |
| Family: | Bucerotidae |
| Genus: | Horizocerus |
| Species: | H. albocristatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Horizocerus albocristatus (Cassin, 1848)
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| Synonyms | |
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Buceros albocristatus ( protonym )
Tockus albocristatusBerenicornis albocristatus Tropicranus albocristatus | |
The western long-tailed hornbill (Horizocerus albocristatus) is a species of
conspecific with the eastern long-tailed hornbill
(Horizocerus cassini) with the English name "white-crested hornbill".
Taxonomy
The western long-tailed hornbill was
conspecific with the eastern long-tailed hornbill (Horizocerus cassini) with the English name "white-crested hornbill".[5]
There are two
wing-coverts
:
- H. a. albocristatus (Cassin, 1848) – Guinea to west Ivory Coast
- H. a. macrourus (Bonaparte, 1850) – east Ivory Coast to Benin
Distribution and habitat
The western long-tailed hornbill has a large range in West Africa, occurring from southern
Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, and Togo. It is frequent in parts of its range. Although its population is difficult to estimate, it is not thought to be threatened.[1]
Gallery
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Head of H. a. macrourus -
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At Central Park Zoo, USA
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Horizocerus albocristatus.
- ^ . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Cassin, John (1848). "Description of a new Buceros, and a notice of the Buceros elatus, Temm., both of which are in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 3: 331–332.
- ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 260.
- ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ a b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (December 2023). "Mousebirds, Cuckoo Roller, trogons, hoopoes, hornbills". IOC World Bird List Version 14.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
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