Torgos

{{Short description|Genus of birds}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Lappet-faced Vulture (Torgos tracheliotos) (52737954254).jpg

| image_caption = Lappet-faced vulture (Torgos tracheliotos)

| fossil_range = Pleistocene - Recent

| taxon = Torgos

| authority = Kaup, 1828

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = *Torgos tracheliotos (Forster, 1796)

• †Torgos platycephalus Gorbatcheva et Zelenkov, 2024

}}

Torgos is a genus of Old World vulture that contains two species, an extant species, the lappet-faced vulture (Torgos tracheliotos) and the fossil species Torgos platycephalus from the late Pleistocene of Azerbaijan and an unnamed fossil species from middle Pleistocene China. {{cite journal|last1=Gorbatcheva |first1=V. O. |last2=Zelenkov |first2=N. V. |year=2024 |title=A Vulture of the Genus Torgos (Aves: Accipitridae) in the Late Pleistocene of Azerbaijan |journal=Paleontological Journal |volume=58 |issue=4 |pages=475–482 |doi=10.1134/S0031030124600367 |bibcode=2024PalJ...58..475G }}