Tauraco

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| image = Tauraco fischeri.jpg

| image_caption = Fischer's turaco
(Tauraco fischeri)

| status = CITES_A2

| status_system = CITES

| taxon = Tauraco

| authority = Kluk, 1779

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text

| type_species = Cuculus persa (Guinea turaco)

| type_species_authority = 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.{{cite book |last1=Carnaby |first1=Trevor |title=Beat about the bush: Birds |date=2008 |publisher=Jacana |location=Johannesburg |isbn=9781770092419 |page=31 |edition=1st}}

Taxonomy

The genus Tauraco was introduced in 1779 by the Polish naturalist Jan Krzysztof Kluk.{{ cite book | last=Kluk | first=Krzysztofa | author-link=Jan Krzysztof Kluk | date=1779 | title=Zwierzat domowych i dzikich, osobliwie kraiowych. Historyi naturalney poczatki i gospodarstwo. Tom. II. Z figurami. O ptastwie | language=Polish | location=Warsaw | publisher=Drukarni J. K. Mości i Rzeczypospolitey u XX. Scholarum Piarum | page=25 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SZs5AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA25 }} The type species was later designated as the Guinea turaco.{{ cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee | editor-link=James L. Peters | year=1940 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=4 | publisher=Harvard University Press | location=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=3 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14476489 }}

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The genus contains 13 species.{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=July 2021 | title=Turacos, bustards, cuckoos, mesites, sandgrouse | work=IOC World Bird List Version 11.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/new/bow/turacos/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=3 July 2021 }}

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|name=Guinea turaco (also called green turaco) |binomial=Tauraco persa

|image=File:Guinea Turaco SMTC.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Linnaeus |authority-year=1758 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= West and Central Africa, ranging from Senegal east to DR Congo and south to northern Angola

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|T. p. buffoni (Vieillot, 1819)

|T. p. persa (Linnaeus, 1758)

|T. p. zenkeri Reichenow, 1896

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|name=Livingstone's turaco |binomial=Tauraco livingstonii

|image=File:Tauraco livingstonii 62514592.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Reichenow |authority-year=1891 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= 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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|name=Schalow's turaco |binomial=Tauraco schalowi

|image=File:Tauraco schalowi -Lotherton Hall-8a.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Reichenow|authority-year= 1891 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= Zambia, central Angola, the southern DRC, and the uplands of southern Kenya, northern and western Tanzania and western Malawi

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|name= Knysna turaco|binomial=Tauraco corythaix

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|authority-name=Wagler|authority-year= 1827 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= South Africa

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|name=Black-billed turaco |binomial=Tauraco schuettii

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|authority-name=Cabanis|authority-year= 1879 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, West Kenya, Burundi, Rwanda and South Sudan.

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|name=Ross's turaco |binomial=Tauraco rossae

|image=File:012 Ross's turaco at Kibale forest National Park Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Gould |authority-year=1852 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= Cameroon to South Sudan and western Kenya south to Angola and Botswana

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|name=Fischer's turaco |binomial=Tauraco fischeri

|image=File:Tauraco fischeri - 20030516.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Reichenow|authority-year= 1878 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania

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|name=Yellow-billed turaco |binomial=Tauraco macrorhynchus

|image=File:Yellow-billed Turaco - Ankasa - Ghana 14 S4E2223.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Fraser |authority-year=1839 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= 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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|name= Hartlaub's turaco|binomial=Tauraco hartlaubi

|image=File:Tauraco hartlaubi-20081223b.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Fischer & Reichenow |authority-year=1884 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda

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|name= Violet turaco|binomial=Tauraco violaceus

|image=File:Violet Curaco (18376273779).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Isert |authority-year=1788 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= Senegal and Gambia to Chad and Central African Republic

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|name= White-crested turaco|binomial=Tauraco leucolophus

|image=File:Tauraco leucolophus -Brookfield Zoo, Chicago, USA-8a.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Heuglin |authority-year=1855 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= eastern Nigeria and western Kenya

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|name=Red-crested turaco |binomial=Tauraco erythrolophus

|image=File:Red-crested Turaco RWD.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Vieillot |authority-year=1819 |authority-not-original=yes

|range=Angola

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|name=Bannerman's turaco |binomial=Tauraco bannermani

|image=File:Bannerman's Turaco (Tauraco bannermani).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Bates, GL |authority-year=1923 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= Cameroon

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References

External links

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Category:Bird genera