The Key to Scientific Names

Edited by James A. Jobling
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grammicus

L. grammicus  lettered, lined  < Gr. γραμμικος grammikos  linear  < γραμμη grammē  line  < γραφω graphō  to write.


Grammicus

Gr. γραμμικος grammikos  engraved, inscribed, lined  < γραμμη grammē  line  < γραφω graphō  to write.
● (Bucerotidae; quasi-syn. Lophoceros † Congo Pied Hornbill L. fasciatus) "15. GRAMMICUS, Reich. — 37. fasciatus, Shaw. — 38. nasutus, L. — 39? hastatus, Cuv. (Levaill., t. 237.) — 40. limbatus, Rupp." (Bonaparte 1854); "Grammicus "Reich." Bonaparte, 1854, Conspectus Volucrum Anisodactylorum, p. 3 (not of Reichenbach, 1849).  Type, by subsequent designation (G. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds Brit. Mus., p. 149), Buceros fasciatus Shaw, 1812." (JAJ 2021).
● (Bucerotidae; syn. Lophoceros African Grey Hornbill L. nasutus ) Reichenbach's 1849, plate XLIX, labelled Levirostres: Bucerotinae, shows the white ridges on the lower mandible of what appears to be an adult female of this hornbill; "Grammicus Reichenbach, 1849, Avium Systema Naturale, pl. XLIX (no specific names given).  Type, by subsequent designation (G. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds Brit. Mus., p. 84), Buceros poecilorhynchus de La Fresnaye, 1839 = Buceros nasutus Linnaeus, 1766." (JAJ 2021).
Var. Grammisus.


hypogrammica / hypogrammicum / hypogrammicus

Gr. ὑπο hupo  beneath; γραμμικος grammikos  lined, linear  < γραμμη grammē  line  < γραφω graphō  to write.


leucogrammica / leucogrammicum / leucogrammicus / leucogrammus

Gr. λευκος leukos  white; γραμμικος grammikos  lined < γραμμη grammē  line, mark  < γραφω graphō  to write.


monogrammicus

Gr. μονος monos  single; γραμμικος grammikos  lined  < γραμμη grammē  line  < γραφω graphō  to write (cf. μονογραμμος monogrammos  drawn with single lines, outlined, sketched).


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