Anthracoceros

Not to be confused with Anthracocaris.

Anthracoceros
Oriental pied hornbill (Anthracoceros albirostris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Bucerotiformes
Family:	Bucerotidae
Genus:	Anthracoceros Reichenbach, 1849
Type species
Buceros monoceros [1] Shaw, 1811
Species
Anthracoceros coronatus Anthracoceros albirostris Anthracoceros malayanus Anthracoceros marchei Anthracoceros montani

Anthracoceros is a genus of birds in the family Bucerotidae.

The genus was introduced by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach in 1849. ^[2] The type species was subsequently designated as the Malabar pied hornbill (Anthracoceros coronatus). ^{[3] [4]} The genus name comes from Ancient Greek ἄνθραξ (ánthrax), meaning "coal", and κέρας (kéras), meaning "horn". ^[5] A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2013 found that Anthracoceros was sister to the genus Ocyceros which contains the three grey hornbill species. ^[6]

The genus contains five species: ^[7]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Anthracoceros coronatus	Malabar pied hornbill	India and Sri Lanka
	Anthracoceros albirostris	Oriental pied hornbill	Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China (Guangxi, Yunnan and Tibet), Eastern and Northern India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam
	Anthracoceros malayanus	Black hornbill	Asia in Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand.
	Anthracoceros marchei	Palawan hornbill	Greater Palawan, Philippines
	Anthracoceros montani	Sulu hornbill	Greater Sulu, Philippines

References

1. "Bucerotidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
2. Reichenbach, Ludwig (1849). Avium Systema Naturale (in German). Vol. 1. Dresden and Leipzig: Friedrich Hofmeister. Plate XLIX.
3. Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 266.
4. 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. 284. ISBN   978-0-9568611-0-8.
5. Jobling, J.A. (2019). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Anthracoceros". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive: Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
6. 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. Bibcode:2013MolPE..67..468G. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2013.02.012. PMID   23438388.
7. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Mousebirds, Cuckoo Roller, trogons, hoopoes, hornbills". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 23 July 2019.