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{{Short description|Genus of birds}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Rhinoceros_hornbill_national_aviary.jpg
| image_caption = [[Biology:Rhinoceros hornbill|Rhinoceros hornbill]]<br>''Buceros rhinoceros''
| taxon = Buceros
| authority = [[Biography:Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], [[Biology:10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]]
| type_species = ''Buceros rhinoceros'' ([[Biology:Rhinoceros hornbill|rhinoceros hornbill]])
| type_species_authority = [[Biography:Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], 1758
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text.
| synonyms = ''Hydrocorax'' <small>[[Biography:Mathurin Jacques Brisson|Brisson]], 1760</small>
}}

'''''Buceros''''' is a [[Biology:Genus|genus]] of large [[Earth:Asia|Asia]]n hornbills (family [[Biology:Bucerotidae|Bucerotidae]]).

==Description==
[[Biology:Hornbill|Hornbill]]s in the [[Biology:Genus|genus]] ''Buceros'' include some of the largest arboreal hornbills in the world, with the largest being the [[Biology:Great hornbill|great hornbill]]. All the hornbills in this genus have a large and hollow bony [[Biology:Casque (anatomy)|casque]] on their upper beak that can be useful to scientists and bird watchers to recognise their age, sex and species. Their wingspan can be up to 1.8 meters (6 foot) and they have the largest wingspan out of all the hornbills.

==Taxonomy==
The [[Biology:Genus|genus]] ''Buceros'' was introduced in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist [[Biography:Carl Linnaeus|Carl Linnaeus]] in the [[Biology:10th edition of Systema Naturae|tenth edition]] of his ''[[Biology:Systema Naturae|Systema Naturae]]''.<ref>{{cite book | last=Linnaeus | first=Carl |  year=1758 | title= Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis | volume=1 | edition=10th | page=104 | publisher=Laurentii Salvii | location=Holmiae (Stockholm) | language=Latin | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/727009 }}</ref> The name is from [[Social:Latin|Latin]] ''becerus'' meaning "horned like an ox" which in turn is from the [[Social:Ancient Greek|Ancient Greek]] boukerōs  which combines ''bous'' meaning "ox" with ''kerōs'' meaning "horn".<ref>{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=79 }}</ref> The [[Biology:Type species|type species]] was designated as the [[Biology:Rhinoceros hornbill|rhinoceros hornbill]] (''Buceros rhinoceros'') by Daniel Giraud Elliot in 1882.<ref>{{ cite book | last=Elliot | first=Daniel Giraud | author-link=Daniel Giraud Elliot | date=1882 | title=A Monograph of the Bucerotidae, or Family of the Hornbills | location= | publisher=Published for the subscribers by the author | page=xvi | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38534471 }}</ref><ref>{{ cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee |  year=1945 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=5 | publisher=Harvard University Press | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts  | page=270 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14480281 }}</ref>

===Species===
The genus contains three species:<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=July 2021 | title=Mousebirds, Cuckoo Roller, trogons, hoopoes, hornbills | work=IOC World Bird List Version 11.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/mousebirds/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=10 August 2021 }}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Image !! Scientific name !! Common Name !! Distribution
|-
|[[File:Hornbill 2.jpg|120px]] ||''Buceros rhinoceros''|| [[Biology:Rhinoceros hornbill|Rhinoceros hornbill]] || Borneo, Sumatra, Java, the Malay Peninsula, Singapore, and southern Thailand
|-
|[[File:Great Hornbill P.jpg|120px]] ||''Buceros bicornis''|| [[Biology:Great hornbill|Great hornbill]] ||India, Bhutan, Nepal, Mainland Southeast Asia, Indonesian Island of Sumatra and North eastern region of India
|-
|[[File:Buceros hydrocorax eating.jpg|120px]] ||''Buceros hydrocorax''|| [[Biology:Rufous hornbill|Rufous hornbill]] ||  Philippines
|-
|}

The [[Biology:Helmeted hornbill|helmeted hornbill]] is sometimes included in this genus, but today most authorities place it in the monotypic ''[[Biology:Rhinoplax|Rhinoplax]]'' instead.

==References==
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* Kemp, A. C. (2001). Family Bucerotidae (Hornbills). pp.&nbsp;436–523 in: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., & Sargatal, J. eds. (2001). ''Handbook of the Birds of the World.'' Vol. 6. Mousebirds to Hornbills. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. {{ISBN|84-87334-30-X}}

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