Zenker's turaco
Appearance
Zenker's turaco | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Musophagiformes |
Family: | Musophagidae |
Genus: | Tauraco |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | T. p. zenkeri
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Trinomial name | |
Tauraco persa zenkeri Reichenow, 1896
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Zenker's turaco (Tauraco persa zenkeri), is a subspecies of the Guinea turaco.[1] It is a green turaco, in the family Musophagidae, subfamily Tauracinae, a group of near-passerines birds. Zenker's turaco is found in forests of Central Africa in the Congo Basin in Gabon, DR Congo and Congo-Brazzaville and south to northern Angola. It forms part of a superspecies complex that extends from West Africa to East Africa and as far south as the Cape in Southern Africa and include the black-billed turaco, Emin's turaco, Schalow's turaco, Livingstone's turaco, the Transvaal turaco and the Knysna turaco, as subspecies within the group.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Citizen science observations for Tauraco persa zenkeri at iNaturalist
- ^ Forshaw and Cooper, 2002, Turacos, The Natural History of Musophagidae