Penelopides

Tarictic hornbills
	Penelopides panini
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Bucerotiformes
Family:	Bucerotidae
Genus:	Penelopides; L. Reichenbach, 1849
Species
	2-5, see text

Penelopides is the genus of relatively small, primarily frugivorous hornbills found in forests of the Philippines and the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Their common name, tarictic hornbills, is an onomatopoetic reference to the main call of several of them. They have a ridged plate-like structure on the base of their mandible. All are sexually dimorphic: males of all species are whitish-buff and black, while females of all except the Mindoro hornbill are primarily black.

Taxonomy

While the taxonomic history of the Sulawesi hornbill has been uneventful, the number of species in the Philippine Archipelago has been greatly debated. Traditionally, only a single Philippine species was recognized, the tarictic hornbill (P. panini). Following a review, it was recommended that it should be split into four allopatric species, the Visayan (P. panini), Luzon (P. manillae), Mindanao (P. affinis), and Mindoro (P. mindorensis). Today most authorities accept this split, although some have recommended splitting the Samar (P. samarensis) from the Mindanao.

Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
Penelopides panini	Visayan hornbill	islands of Panay, Negros, Masbate, and Guimaras, and formerly Ticao, in the Philippines.
Penelopides manillae	Luzon hornbill	Luzon and nearby islands in the northern Philippines
Penelopides affinis	Mindanao hornbill	Mindanao, Dinagat, Siargao and Basilan in the southern Philippines
Penelopides samarensis	Samar hornbill	islands of Samar, Calicoan, Leyte and Bohol in the east-central Philippines
Penelopides mindorensis	Mindoro hornbill	Mindoro in the Philippines

References

Kemp, A. C. (2001). Family Bucerotidae (Hornbills). pp. 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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