Tyto - Systematics

Systematics

Living and recently extinct species - and some notable subspecies - of barn owls are:

  • Sooty Owl Tyto tenebricosa
  • Lesser Sooty Owl Tyto multipunctata
  • Australian Masked Owl Tyto novaehollandiae
    • Tasmanian Masked Owl Tyto (novaehollandiae) castanopsis
  • Golden Masked Owl Tyto aurantia
  • Moluccan Masked Owl Tyto sororcula or Tyto (novaehollandiae) sororcula
    • Buru Masked Owl Tyto (sororcula) cayelii or Tyto (novaehollandiae) cayelii - long known only by two specimens collected in 1898 and 1921 until a voice recording in 2009 confirmed its further existence
  • Seram Masked Owl, Tyto almae
  • Manus Masked Owl Tyto manusi or Tyto (novaehollandiae) manusi
  • Taliabu Masked Owl Tyto nigrobrunnea
  • Minahassa Masked Owl Tyto inexspectata
  • Sulawesi Owl or Sulawesi Masked-owl, Tyto rosenbergii
    • Peleng Masked Owl Tyto rosenbergii pelengensis - probably extinct (mid-20th century)
  • Barn Owl or Common Barn Owl, Tyto alba
    • Eastern Barn Owl Tyto (alba) delicatula
    • Andaman Masked Owl or Andaman Barn Owl Tyto (alba) deroepstorffi
  • Ashy-faced Owl Tyto glaucops
  • Red Owl Tyto soumagnei
  • African Grass Owl Tyto capensis
  • Eastern Grass Owl Tyto longimembris

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