| Lophoceros | |
|---|---|
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| Crowned hornbill, Lophoceros alboterminatus | |
Scientific 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 | |
See text. | |
Lophoceros is a genus of birds in the hornbill family, Bucerotidae, which are native to Africa.
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]
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. |
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