Seram Masked-Owl

SCI Name:  Tyto almae
Protonym:  Tyto almae Zootaxa 3635 (1) 051-061
Taxonomy:  Strigiformes / Tytonidae / Tyto
Taxonomy Code:  sermao1
Type Locality:  
Author:  Jonsson et al.
Publish Year:  2013
IUCN Status:  Data Deficient

DEFINITIONS

TYTO
(Tytonidae; Ϯ Common Barn Owl T. alba) Gr. τυτω tutō, τυτους tutous  owl, night-owl; the Common Barn Owl is the most widespread owl in the world, although recent work suggests that some of its subspecies, for example in the Americas and in Australasia, should be elevated to specific status; "1. Strix,  2. Tyto B. (Strix Savigny)." (Billberg 1828); "Tyto Billberg, Syn. Faun. Scand., 1, pt. 2, 1828, tab. A.  Type, by monotypy, Strix flammea auct. = Strix alba Scopoli." (Peters 1940, IV, 77).
Synon. Aluco, Dactylostrix, Eustrinx, Flammea, Glaucostrix, Glaux, Glyphidiura, Heliodilus, Hybris, Megastrix, Nyctimene, Scelostrix, Stridula, Strigymnhemipus, Strix.
● (syn. Strix Ϯ Brown Wood Owl S. leptogrammica) "Genus Tyto Heine [Myrtha (!) Bp. 1854]" (Heine 1890).  A purist replacement name.

almae
● Female eponym; dedicatee not yet identified (Oberholser 1898, Auk, 15, 304: "Alma's Thrush") (cf. (1) "Alma Thrush" of Oberholser 1938, which also, however, included, e.g. "Bicknell Thrush" and "Forster Tern"; (2) Alma Creek (= Jack's Creek), Elko County, Nevada, USA (Mark Brown in litt.)) (syn. Catharus ustulatus).
● Alma Jønsson (fl. 2012) daughter of Danish ornithologist Knud Andreas Jønsson (Tyto).