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Tockus
Sign in to saveTockus is a genus of birds in the hornbill family, Bucerotidae, that are native to Africa.
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Vinony's link graph records 175 inbound references to Tockus, and connects out to Picinae, trogon and Bucerotiformes.
Vinony files it under Bird genera, Birds of Sub-Saharan Africa and Tockus.
Vinony links it to 34 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderBucerotiformes
- FamilyBucerotidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 160
- With media
- 20
- Family
- Bucerotidae
- Collections
- ROM, BSNS, USNM, CUMV, FMNH, UMZC
- Recorded in
- Sri Lanka, Kenya, India, Mozambique
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Species
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Tockus is a genus of birds in the hornbill family, Bucerotidae, that are native to Africa.
==Taxonomy== The genus Tockus was introduced in 1830 by the French naturalist René Lesson. He listed three species in his new genus but did not specify a type species. In 1840 the English zoologist George Gray selected the type as Buceros erythrorhynchus, the northern red-billed hornbill. The genus name is derived from a word used by local people in Senegal for a hornbill.
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