Purple-crested Turaco
Gallirex porphyreolophus - Touraco à huppe splendide
Systematics
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Order:
Musophagiformes
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Family:
Musophagidés
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Genus:
Gallirex
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Species:
porphyreolophus
Descriptor
Biometrics
- Size: 46 cm
- Wingspan: -
- Weight: 218 à 328 g
Geographic range
Identification
Purple-crested Turaco (Gallirex porphyreolophus) is a species of bird in the Musophagidae family.
Subspecific information 2 subspecies
- Gallirex porphyreolophus porphyreolophus (Zimbabwe and Mozambique to ne South Africa)
- Gallirex porphyreolophus chlorochlamys (se Kenya to n Mozambigue and Malawi)
Foreign names
- Touraco à huppe splendide,
- Turaco crestimorado,
- turaco-de-poupa-violeta,
- Glanzhaubenturako,
- lilasapkás turákó,
- Purperkuiftoerako,
- Turaco crestaviola,
- purpurtofsad turako,
- Purpurkroneturako,
- turako lesklohlavý,
- turako lesklohlavý,
- Violettoppet Turako,
- violettiharjaturako,
- Bloukuifloerie,
- turac de cresta porpra,
- turak rdzawy,
- Фиолетовочубый турако,
- ズグロエボシドリ,
- 紫冠蕉鹃,
- 紫冠蕉鵑,
Habitat
Forest : Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland ; Shrubland : Subtropical/Tropical Dry, Subtropical/Tropical Moist ; Artificial/Terrestrial : Plantations, Rural Gardens
Threats - protection
IUCN conservation status
Extinct
Threatened
Least
concern
concern
Extinc
in the Wild
in the Wild
Near
threatened
threatened
Not
evaluated
evaluated
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EW
CR
EN
VU
NT
LC
NE
Sources of information
- Vol. 4 - Handbook of the Birds of the World, Josep del Hoyo-Andrew Elliott-Jordi Sargatal
- Birds of East Africa, C.A.W. Guggisberg
- Birds of Africa South of the Sahara, Ian Sinclair and Peter Ryan
- Biodiversity explorer The web of life in Southern Africa,
- Avibase, Lepage Denis
- THE AVIANWEB, Sibylle Faye
- IOC World Bird List (v14.1), Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2024-04-18.
Other sources of interest
- Accipitriformes
- Aegotheliformes
- Anseriformes
- Apodiformes
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- Cariamiformes
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- Falconiformes
- Galliformes
- Gaviiformes
- Gruiformes
- Leptosomiformes
- Mesitornithiformes
- Musophagiformes
- Nyctibiiformes
- Opisthocomiformes
- Otidiformes
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