Ptilopsis
Appearance
Ptilopsis | |
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Northern white-faced owl | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Strigiformes |
Family: | Strigidae |
Genus: | Ptilopsis Kaup, 1848 |
Type species | |
Strix leucotis[1] Temminck, 1820
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Species | |
P. leucotis |
Ptilopsis is a genus of typical owls, or true owls, in the family Strigidae, that inhabits Africa. Its members are:[2]
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Ptilopsis leucotis (Temminck, 1820) | Northern white-faced owl | Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Togo and Uganda. | |
Ptilopsis granti (Kollibay, 1910) | Southern white-faced owl | southern half of Africa |
References
- ^ "Strigidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ "Ptilopsis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
- Barlow, Wacher and Disley, Birds of The Gambia ISBN 1-873403-32-1