Eastern long-tailed hornbill

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Eastern long-tailed hornbill
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Bucerotiformes
Family: Bucerotidae
Genus: Horizocerus
Species:
H. cassini
Binomial name
Horizocerus cassini
(Finsch, 1903)
Synonyms
  • Ortholophus cassiniFinsch, 1903
  • Horizocerus albocristatus cassini(Finsch, 1903)

The eastern long-tailed hornbill (Horizocerus cassini) is a species of bird in the hornbill family Bucerotidae found in humid forests of West Africa. It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the western long-tailed hornbill (Horizocerus albocristatus) with the English name "white-crested hornbill".

Taxonomy

The eastern long-tailed hornbill was formally described in 1903 by the German naturalist Otto Finsch based on a specimen from Gabon in West Africa. He coined the binomial name Ortholophus cassini. [2] [3] The specific epithet was chosen to honour the American ornithologist John Cassin. [4] The species is now placed in the genus Horizocerus that was introduced in 1899 by the American ornithologist Harry C. Oberholser. The eastern long-tailed hornbill was formerly considered to be conspecific with the western long-tailed hornbill (Horizocerus albocristatus) with the English name "white-crested hornbill". [5]

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References

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  3. Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 261.
  4. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 93. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
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