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]
| Zenker's turaco | |
|---|---|
Scientific 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
| |
References
edit- ^ Citizen science observations for Tauraco persa zenkeri at iNaturalist
- ^ Forshaw and Cooper, 2002, Turacos, The Natural History of Musophagidae