Guinea Turaco (Tauraco persa) [XC402649]
by Bram Vogels from Bouna, Savanes, Ivory Coast (call, song)
Guinea Turaco (Tauraco persa) [XC704601]
by Alain Malengreau from For\u00eat class\u00e9e du Mont Tonkoui, Man, Montagnes District, Ivory Coast (call)
Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Livingstone's Turaco (Tauraco livingstonii), Schalow's Turaco (Tauraco schalowi), Knysna Turaco (Tauraco corythaix), Black-billed Turaco (Tauraco schuettii) and Fischer's Turaco (Tauraco fischeri), a complex of allopatric forms formerly treated variably either as a single polytypic species or as three, five or six species.
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
buffoni (Vieillot, 1819) - Senegambia to Liberia.
persa (Linnaeus, 1758) - Ivory Coast and Ghana east to Mt Cameroon and Bamenda Highlands.