NATURAL HISTORY · CATALOGUE RECORD
Oriental Pied Hornbill
Anthracoceros albirostris (Shaw, 1808)
Source-backed taxonomic record
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Oriental pied hornbill (Anthracoceros albirostris) male (l) female (r), Kinabatangan River, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia
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Open encyclopedia reference
The oriental pied hornbill (Anthracoceros albirostris) is an Indo-Malayan pied hornbill, a large canopy-dwelling bird belonging to the family Bucerotidae. Two other common names for this species are Sunda pied hornbill (convexus) and Malaysian pied hornbill.
The oriental pied hornbill is considered to be among the smallest and most common of the Asian hornbills. It has the largest distribution in the genus and occurs in the Indian subcontinent and throughout Southeast Asia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. Its diet includes fruit, insects, shellfish, small reptiles and small mammals and birds including their eggs.
Wikipedia contributors, Oriental pied hornbill; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T09:55:56.579353+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Anthracoceros albirostris (Shaw, 1808)
- Name authority
- (Shaw, 1808)
- Common name
- Oriental Pied Hornbill
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Bucerotiformes
- Family
- Bucerotidae
- Genus
- Anthracoceros
- Extinction status
- Recorded extant
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumOsteichthyes
- megaclassTetrapoda
- classAves
- orderBucerotiformes
- familyBucerotidae
- genusAnthracoceros Reichenbach, 1849
- speciesAnthracoceros albirostris (Shaw, 1808)
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Anthracoceros. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Palawan HornbillAnthracoceros marchei Oustalet, 1885 | BucerotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Sulu HornbillAnthracoceros montani (Oustalet, 1880) | BucerotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Malabar Pied HornbillAnthracoceros coronatus (Boddaert, 1783) | BucerotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black HornbillAnthracoceros malayanus (Raffles, 1822) | BucerotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
Documented distribution
Source distribution statements, not a complete range map. A listed locality is not necessarily a place of origin.
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=554421 Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:67GSD. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.