Taliabu Masked-Owl / Tyto nigrobrunnea

Taliabu Masked-Owl / Tyto nigrobrunnea

Taliabu Masked-Owl

SCI Name:  Tyto nigrobrunnea
Protonym:  Tyto nigrobrunnea Bull.Br.Orn.Club 59 p.89
Taxonomy:  Strigiformes / Tytonidae /
Taxonomy Code:  talowl1
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Publish Year:  1939
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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.

nigrobrunnea
L. niger  black; Mod. L. brunneus  brown  < Med. L. brunius  brown.