Tauraco
| Tauraco | |
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| Fischer's turaco (Tauraco fischeri) | |
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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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Tauraco is a genus of turacos. It contains the "typical" or green turacos; though their plumage is not always green all over, the presence of significant amounts of turacoverdin-colored plumage generally sets Tauraco species apart from other Musophagidae. Indeed, as opposed to any other known birds, Tauraco turacos are the only living bird taxa that have any significant green pigment whatsoever, as the greens of many parrots etc. are due to 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]
| Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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| Guinea turaco (also called green turaco) | Tauraco persa (Linnaeus, 1758) |
West and Central Africa, ranging from Senegal east to DR Congo and south to northern Angola Map of range |
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| Livingstone's turaco | Tauraco livingstonii (Reichenow, 1891) |
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. Map of range |
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| Schalow's turaco | Tauraco schalowi (Reichenow, 1891) |
Zambia, central Angola, the southern DRC, and the uplands of southern Kenya, northern and western Tanzania and western Malawi Map of range |
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| Knysna turaco | Tauraco corythaix (Wagler, 1827) |
South Africa Map of range |
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| Black-billed turaco | Tauraco schuettii (Cabanis, 1879) |
Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, West Kenya, Burundi, Rwanda and South Sudan. Map of range |
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| Ross's turaco
File:012 Ross's turaco at Kibale forest National Park Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg |
Tauraco rossae (Gould, 1852) |
Cameroon to South Sudan and western Kenya south to Angola and Botswana Map of range |
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| Fischer's turaco | Tauraco fischeri (Reichenow, 1878) |
Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania Map of range |
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| Yellow-billed turaco | Tauraco macrorhynchus (Fraser, 1839) |
Angola, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone Map of range |
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| Hartlaub's turaco | Tauraco hartlaubi (Fischer & Reichenow, 1884) |
Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda Map of range |
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| Violet turaco | Tauraco violaceus (Isert, 1788) |
Senegal and Gambia to Chad and Central African Republic | Size: Habitat: Diet: |
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| White-crested turaco
File:Tauraco leucolophus -Brookfield Zoo, Chicago, USA-8a.jpg |
Tauraco leucolophus (Heuglin, 1855) |
eastern Nigeria and western Kenya Map of range |
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| Red-crested turaco | Tauraco erythrolophus (Vieillot, 1819) |
Angola Map of range |
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| Bannerman's turaco | Tauraco bannermani (Bates, GL, 1923) |
Cameroon Map of range |
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References
- ↑ Carnaby, Trevor (2008). Beat about the bush: Birds (1st ed.). Johannesburg: Jacana. p. 31. 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.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1940). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 4. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 3.
- ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2021). "Turacos, bustards, cuckoos, mesites, sandgrouse". IOC World Bird List Version 11.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
External links
- File:Commons-logo.svg Media related to Tauraco at Wikimedia Commons
- File:Wikispecies-logo.svg Data related to Tauraco at Wikispecies
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