Torgos

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. ^[1]

Torgos Temporal range: Pleistocene - Recent
Lappet-faced vulture (Torgos tracheliotos)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Accipitriformes
Family:	Accipitridae
Subfamily:	Aegypiinae
Genus:	Torgos Kaup, 1828
Species
Torgos tracheliotos (Forster, 1796) †Torgos platycephalus Gorbatcheva et Zelenkov, 2024