Tauraco
| Tauraco | |
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| Fischer's turaco (Tauraco fischeri) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Musophagiformes |
| Family: | Musophagidae |
| Subfamily: | Musophaginae |
| Genus: | Tauraco Kluk, 1779 |
| Type species | |
| Cuculus persa (Guinea turaco) Linnaeus, 1758
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| Species | |
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Tauraco is a genus of
structural color, not pigment. Their genus name was derived from a native West African name.[1]
Taxonomy
The genus Tauraco was introduced in 1779 by the Polish naturalist Jan Krzysztof Kluk.[2] The type species was later designated as the Guinea turaco.[3]
Species
The genus contains 13 species.[4]
| Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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Guinea turaco (also called green turaco) | Tauraco persa | West and Central Africa, ranging from Senegal east to DR Congo and south to northern Angola |
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Livingstone's turaco | Tauraco livingstonii | Burundi, and is besides found from southern Tanzania to eastern and southern Malawi, eastern Zimbabwe, widely in Mozambique and along the subtropical coast of South Africa. |
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Schalow's turaco | Tauraco schalowi | Zambia, central Angola, the southern DRC, and the uplands of southern Kenya, northern and western Tanzania and western Malawi |
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Knysna turaco | Tauraco corythaix | South Africa |
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Black-billed turaco | Tauraco schuettii | Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, West Kenya, Burundi, Rwanda and South Sudan. |
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Ross's turaco | Tauraco rossae | Cameroon to South Sudan and western Kenya south to Angola and Botswana |
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Fischer's turaco | Tauraco fischeri | Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania |
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Yellow-billed turaco | Tauraco macrorhynchus | Angola, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone |
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Hartlaub's turaco | Tauraco hartlaubi | Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda |
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Violet turaco | Tauraco violaceus | Senegal and Gambia to Chad and Central African Republic |
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White-crested turaco | Tauraco leucolophus | eastern Nigeria and western Kenya |
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Red-crested turaco | Tauraco erythrolophus | Angola |
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Bannerman's turaco | Tauraco bannermani | Cameroon |
References
- ISBN 9781770092419.
- ^ Kluk, Krzysztofa (1779). Zwierzat domowych i dzikich, osobliwie kraiowych. Historyi naturalney poczatki i gospodarstwo. Tom. II. Z figurami. O ptastwie (in Polish). Warsaw: Drukarni J. K. Mości i Rzeczypospolitey u XX. Scholarum Piarum. p. 25.
- ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1940). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 4. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 3.
- Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2021). "Turacos, bustards, cuckoos, mesites, sandgrouse". IOC World Bird List Version 11.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
