Helmeted Hornbill
Rhinoplax vigil(Pennant, T, 1781)
English (US) Helmeted Hornbill
The Helmeted Hornbill (Rhinoplax vigil) 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: Myanmar to southern Thailand, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and BorneoRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Rhinoplax vigil
- Family
- Bucerotidae (Hornbills)
- Order
- Bucerotiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Critically Endangered
- English (US)
- Helmeted Hornbill
- Described by
- (Pennant, T, 1781)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Buceros vigil
- Described by
- (Pennant, T, 1781)
- Type locality
- Sumatra (based on Edwards, pl. 281).
- Original description
- Indische Zoologie oder systematischer Beschreibungen seltener und unbekannter Thiere aus Indien (etc.) p.40
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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