Brown-cheeked Hornbill
Bycanistes cylindricus(Temminck, CJ, 1831)
English (US) Brown-cheeked Hornbill
The Brown-cheeked Hornbill (Bycanistes cylindricus) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Bucerotidae (Hornbills) in the order Bucerotiformes.
Range: humid forest of Sierra Leone to GhanaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Bycanistes cylindricus
- Family
- Bucerotidae (Hornbills)
- Order
- Bucerotiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Brown-cheeked Hornbill
- Described by
- (Temminck, CJ, 1831)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Buceros cylindricus
- Described by
- (Temminck, CJ, 1831)
- Type locality
- Cape Coast, West Africa.
- Original description
- Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon livr.88, vol.2 pl.521 fig.2
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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