Guinea Turaco (Tauraco persa) [XC99226]
by Bram Piot from Mankon Sacred Forest, Mankon, Cameroon (song)
Guinea Turaco (Tauraco persa) [XC492878]
by Wim Jacobs from Lobeke National Park, Headquarters, Mambele, Cameroon (song)
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.