Yellow-casqued Hornbill
Ceratogymna elata(Temminck, CJ, 1831)
English (US) Yellow-casqued Hornbill
The Yellow-casqued Hornbill (Ceratogymna elata) 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 Senegambia to CameroonRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Ceratogymna elata
- Family
- Bucerotidae (Hornbills)
- Order
- Bucerotiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Yellow-casqued Hornbill
- Described by
- (Temminck, CJ, 1831)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Buceros elatus
- Described by
- (Temminck, CJ, 1831)
- Type locality
- No locality = Sierra Leone, apud Hartlaub, 1854.
- 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.1
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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