Editing Openbill stork (section)

==Taxonomy==
The [[genus]] ''Anastomus'' was erected by the French naturalist [[Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre|Pierre Bonnaterre]] in 1791.<ref>{{ cite book | last1=Bonnaterre | first1=Pierre Joseph | author1-link=Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre | last2=Vieillot | first2=Louis Pierre  | author2-link=Louis Pierre Vieillot | year=1823 | title=Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature: Ornithologie | volume=Part 1 | language=fr | location=Paris | publisher=Panckoucke | page=xciii | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51114668 }} Although the title page bears the date of 1823 the section (''livraison'') containing the description was published in 1791. See: {{ cite book | last1=Dickinson | first1=E.C. | author1-link=Edward C. Dickinson | last2=Overstreet | first2=L.K. | last3=Dowsett | first3=R.J. | last4=Bruce | first4=M.D. | year=2011 | title=Priority! The Dating of Scientific Names in Ornithology: a Directory to the literature and its reviewers | location=Northampton, UK | publisher=Aves Press | isbn=978-0-9568611-1-5 | page=78 | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267763194 }}</ref> The [[type species]] was subsequently designated as the Asian openbill (''Anastomus oscitans'').<ref>{{ cite book | last=Gray | author-link=George Robert Gray | year=1841 | title=A List of the Genera of Birds : with their Synonyma and an Indication of the Typical Species of Each Genus | edition=2nd | place=London | publisher= R. and J.E. Taylor | page=87 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14050318}}</ref><ref>{{ cite book | editor1-last=Mayr | editor1-first=Ernst | editor1-link=Ernst Mayr | editor2-last=Cottrell | editor2-first=G. William | year=1979 | title=Check-list of Birds of the World | volume=1 | edition=2nd | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | pages=246–247 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16108886 }}</ref> The name ''Anastomus'' is from the [[Ancient Greek]] αναστομοω ''anastomoō'' meaning "to furnish with a mouth" or "with mouth wide-opened".<ref>{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url=https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn= 978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=[https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling/page/n46 46] }}</ref>

There are two species of openbilled storks:<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2019 | title=Storks, frigatebirds, boobies, cormorants, darters | work=World Bird List Version 9.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/storks/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=16 July 2019 }}</ref>
{{Species table |genus=Anastomus  |authority-name=[[Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre|Bonnaterre]] |authority-year=1791 |species-count=two|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}

{{Species table/row
|name=African openbill |binomial=[[Anastomus lamelligerus]]
|image=File:African openbill, Anastomus lamelligerus, Chobe National Park, Botswana (31548249924), crop.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Temminck|authority-year=1823 |authority-not-original=
|range= A resident breeder in [[Sub-Saharan Africa]], including [[Madagascar]]
|range-image=File:Anastomus lamelligerus map.svg
|range-image-size=180px
|size=measuring {{cvt|80|–|94|cm}} and weighing {{cvt|1|–|1.3|kg}}
|habitat=
|hunting= aquatic snails and fresh water mussels
|iucn-status= LC
|population=
|direction=
|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Two subspecies |bullets=on
| ''A. l. lamelligerus''
| ''A. l. madagascariensis''
}}
}}

{{Species table/row
|name= Asian openbill|binomial=[[Anastomus oscitans]]
|image=File:Asian Openbill (Anastomus oscitans) in Kolkata I IMG 0495.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Boddaert |authority-year=1783 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= A resident breeder in tropical [[South Asia|southern Asia]] from [[India]] and [[Sri Lanka]] east to [[Southeast Asia]].
|range-image=File:Asian Openbill.JPG
|range-image-size=180px
|size={{cvt|68|cm}} height ({{cvt|81|cm}} long).
|habitat=
|hunting=
|iucn-status= LC
|population=
|direction=
|subspecies=
}}
{{Species table/end}}