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Zenker's turaco

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Zenker's turaco
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Musophagiformes
Family: Musophagidae
Genus: Tauraco
Species:
Subspecies:
T. p. zenkeri
Trinomial name
Tauraco persa zenkeri
Reichenow, 1896

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

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  1. ^ Citizen science observations for Tauraco persa zenkeri at iNaturalist
  2. ^ Forshaw and Cooper, 2002, Turacos, The Natural History of Musophagidae