Tauraco
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]
Tauraco | |
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Fischer's turaco (Tauraco fischeri) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Musophagiformes |
Family: | Musophagidae |
Subfamily: | Musophaginae |
Genus: | Tauraco Kluk, 1779 |
Species | |
14, see text |
Species
Species are:
Section | Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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Section Tauraco | ![]() | Guinea turaco (also called green turaco) | Tauraco persa | West and Central Africa, ranging from Senegal east to DR Congo and south to northern Angola |
![]() | 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. | |
![]() | Schalow's turaco | Tauraco schalowi | Zambia, central Angola, the southern DRC, and the uplands of southern Kenya, northern and western Tanzania and western Malawi | |
![]() | Knysna turaco | Tauraco corythaix | South Africa | |
Black-billed turaco | Tauraco schuettii | Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, West Kenya, Burundi, Rwanda and South Sudan. | ||
![]() | White-cheeked turaco | Tauraco leucotis | Eritrea, Ethiopia, and South Sudan | |
![]() | Fischer's turaco | Tauraco fischeri | Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania | |
![]() | 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 | |
![]() | Hartlaub's turaco | Tauraco hartlaubi | Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda | |
![]() | Ruspoli's turaco | Tauraco ruspolii | southern Ethiopia | |
![]() | Purple-crested turaco | Tauraco porphyreolophus | Burundi, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Their southernmost occurrence is at the Mtamvuna River on the KwaZulu-Natal-Eastern Cape border | |
Section Proturacus | ![]() | White-crested turaco | Tauraco leucolophus | eastern Nigeria and western Kenya |
![]() | Red-crested turaco | Tauraco erythrolophus | Angola | |
![]() | Bannerman's turaco | Tauraco bannermani | Cameroon | |
The last species had sometimes been united with the Rwenzori turaco (Ruwenzorornis), and the great blue turaco (Corythaeola cristata) with Gallirex.
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References
- Carnaby, Trevor (2008). Beat about the bush: Birds (1st ed.). Johannesburg: Jacana. p. 31. ISBN 9781770092419.
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