Buffy fish owl
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phylum | Chordata | The buffy fish owl (Bubo ketupu), also known as the Malay fish owl, is a species of owl in the family Strigidae. The four fish owls were previously generally separated in the genus Ketupa. mtDNA cytochrome b sequence data is equivocal on which genus name is applied for them, and today they are commonly lumped with the horned and eagle-owls (Bubo) – which they also resemble osteologically very much – for sake of convenience. Depending on whether some little-studied tropical eagle-owls are closer to the fish-owls than to the typical eagle-owls, Ketupa might be a valid genus if these as well as the fishing owls (formerly Scotopelia) are included in it, although there are a number of osteological differences that suggest that fishing and fish owls are not directly related to each other.
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clade | Diapsida | |
Class | Aves | |
order | Strigiformes | |
family | Strigidae | |
genus | Bubo | |
species | B. ketupu |