Zenker's turaco
| Zenker's turaco | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Musophagiformes |
| Family: | Musophagidae |
| Genus: | Tauraco |
| Species: | T. persa |
| Subspecies: | T. p. zenkeri |
| Trinomial name | |
| Tauraco persa zenkeri | |
Zenker's turaco (Tauraco persa zenkeri), is a subspecies of the Guinea turaco. 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 Brazaville 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, Schalow's turaco , Livingstone's turaco, the Transvaal turaco and the Knysna turaco, as subspecies within the group.[1]
References
- ↑ Forshaw and Cooper, 2002, Turacos, The Natural History of Musophagidae
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