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

  1. ^ Citizen science observations for Tauraco persa zenkeri at iNaturalist
  2. ^ Forshaw and Cooper, 2002, Turacos, The Natural History of Musophagidae
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenker%27s_Turaco
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