Tyto

Tyto
Temporal range: Late Miocene–Recent
African grass owl, Tyto capensis
The "grass owls" are two rather long-legged species of Tyto.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Strigiformes
Family: Tytonidae
Subfamily: Tytoninae
Genus: Tyto
Billberg, 1828
Type species
Strix flammea[1] = Strix alba
Linnaeus, 1766
Species

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Synonyms

Tyto is a genus of birds consisting of true barn owls, grass owls and masked owls that collectively make up all the species within the subfamily Tytoninae of the barn owl family, Tytonidae.

  1. ^ "Strigidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-26.