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Tytonidae (barn owl)
Taxonomy
Tytonidae was named by Ridgway (1914). It is extant. Its type is Tyto.
It was assigned to Strigiformes by Hay (1930); to Strigiformes by Mayr (2005); and to Strigiformes by Lambrecht (1933), Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1956), Olson (1985), Mourer-Chauviré (1987), Carroll (1988), Guthrie (1992), Livezey and Zusi (2007), del Hoyo et al. (2014), Clements et al. (2017).
It was assigned to Strigiformes by Hay (1930); to Strigiformes by Mayr (2005); and to Strigiformes by Lambrecht (1933), Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1956), Olson (1985), Mourer-Chauviré (1987), Carroll (1988), Guthrie (1992), Livezey and Zusi (2007), del Hoyo et al. (2014), Clements et al. (2017).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1914 | Tytonidae Ridgway |
| 1930 | Tytonidae Hay p. 348 |
| 1933 | Tytonidae Lambrecht p. 612 |
| 1940 | Tytonidae Wetmore p. 67 |
| 1956 | Tytonidae Wetmore p. 85 |
| 1985 | Tytonidae Olson p. 130 |
| 1987 | Tytonidae Mourer-Chauviré p. 91 |
| 1988 | Tytonidae Carroll |
| 1992 | Tytonidae Guthrie p. 324 |
| 2005 | Tytonidae Mayr p. 318 |
| 2007 | Tytonidae Livezey and Zusi p. 93 |
| 2014 | Tytonidae del Hoyo et al. |
| 2017 | Tytonidae Clements et al. |
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Fm. Tytonidae Ridgway 1914 [barn owl]
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G. †Nocturnavis Mourer-Chauviré 1987
Subfm. Phodilinae Beddard 1898
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G. Phodilus Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1830 [bay-owl]
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Phodilus assimilis Hume 1877 [Sri Lanka bay-owl]
Phodilus badius Horsfield 1821 [Oriental bay-owl]
Phodilus prigoginei Schouteden 1952 [Congo bay-owl]
G. †Selenornis Mourer-Chauviré 1987
G. Tyto Billberg 1828
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Tyto alba Scopoli 1769 [barn owl]
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Tyto alba delicatula Gould 1837
Tyto alba gracilirostris Hartert 1905
Tyto alba pratincola Bonaparte 1838
Tyto alba punctatissima Gould and Gray 1838 [Galapagos barn owl]
†Tyto balearica Mourer-Chauvire et al. 1980
†Tyto cavatica Wetmore 1920
†Tyto cravesae Suárez and Olson 2015 [Craves's giant barn owl]
†Tyto gigantea Ballmann 1973
Tyto glaucops Kaup 1853 [ashy-faced owl]
†Tyto letocarti Balouet and Olson 1989
†Tyto mourerchauvireae Pavia 2004
†Tyto noeli Arredondo 1972 [Noel's giant barn owl]
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Invalid names: Tyto neddi Steadman and Hilgartner 1999 [synonym]
Tyto novaehollandiae Stephens 1826 [Australian masked-owl]
†Tyto ostologa Wetmore 1922 [Hispaniolan giant barn owl]
Tyto perlata Vieillot 1817
Invalid names: Tytoninae Mathews 1912 [empty]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available