Black-casqued Hornbill
Ceratogymna atrata(Temminck, CJ, 1835)
English (US) Black-casqued Hornbill
The Black-casqued Hornbill (Ceratogymna atrata) 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: patchily distributed forest of western and central Africa; Bioko IslandRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Ceratogymna atrata
- Family
- Bucerotidae (Hornbills)
- Order
- Bucerotiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Black-casqued Hornbill
- Described by
- (Temminck, CJ, 1835)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Buceros atratus
- Described by
- (Temminck, CJ, 1835)
- Type locality
- Ashanti.
- Original description
- Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon livr.94, vol.2 pl.558
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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