Lophoceros is a genus of birds in the hornbill family, Bucerotidae, which are native to Africa.

The genus Lophoceros was introduced in 1833 by the German naturalists Wilhelm Hemprich and Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg to accommodate Buceros, Lophoceros, forskålii.

[1] This is now considered as a junior synonym of the nominate subspecies of the African grey hornbill (Lophoceros nasutus nasutus).

[2] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek lophos meaning "crest" with kerōs meaning "horn".

A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2013 found that Tockus was divided by a deep phylogenetic split into two major groups.