Strix

Brown wood owl Strix leptogrammica, copyright Prateik Kulkarni.

Belongs within: Strigidae.

Strix is a genus of medium-sized to very large owls lacking external ear-tufts, found widely in Eurasia, Africa and the Americas.

<==Strix Linnaeus 1758 M02 (see below for synonymy)
    |--+--+--S. occidentalis JT12
    |  |  `--S. virgata JT12
    |  `--+--S. rufipes JT12
    |     `--S. varia JT12
    `--+--+--S. butleri BKB15
       |  `--S. woodfordii BKB15
       `--+--+--S. leptogrammica JT12
          |  `--S. nebulosa BKB15
          `--+--S. aluco Linnaeus 1758 BKB15, CC10 (see below for synonymy)
             |    |--S. a. aluco RN72
             |    |--S. a. sylvatica RN72
             |    `--S. a. wilkonskii RN72
             `--+--S. davidi JT12
                `--S. uralensis JT12

Strix incertae sedis:
  S. albitarsis JT12
  S. asio Linnaeus 1758 L58
  S. atricapilla P89
  S. chacoensis JT12
  S. dakota FP64
  S. edwardsi Ennouchi 1930 [=Tyto edwardsi] M02
  S. fulvescens JT12
  S. huhula JT12
  S. hylophila JT12
  S. ignota Milne-Edwards 1871 [=Tyto ignota, Asio ignotus] M02
  S. nigrolineata JT12
  S. nyctea Linnaeus 1758 L58
  S. ocellata JT12
  S. otus Linnaeus 1758 L58
  S. seloputo JT12
  S. ulula Linnaeus 1758 L58
  S. wintershofensis (Ballmann 1969) [=Otus wintershofensis] M02

Strix Linnaeus 1758 M02 [incl. Ptynx Blyth 1840 B94, Syrnium Savigny 1809 B94, Ulula Cuvier 1816 B94; Syrniinae, Ululinae]

Strix aluco Linnaeus 1758 BKB15, CC10 [=Syrnium aluco CC10, Smyrnium (l. c.) aluco CC10; incl. Strix intermedia Jánossy 1972 M02, *Strix stridula Linnaeus 1758 B94]

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[B94] Bock, W. J. 1994. History and nomenclature of avian family-group names. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 222: 1–281.

[BKB15] Burleigh, J. G., R. T. Kimball & E. L. Braun. 2015. Building the avian tree of life using a large-scale, sparse supermatrix. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 84: 53–63.

[CC10] Checklist Committee (OSNZ). 2010. Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica 4^th ed. Ornithological Society of New Zealand and Te Papa Press: Wellington.

[FP64] Fisher, J., & R. T. Peterson. 1964. The World of Birds: A comprehensive guide to general ornithology. Macdonald: London.

[JT12] Jetz, W., G. H. Thomas, J. B. Joy, K. Hartmann & A. Ø. Mooers. 2012. The global diversity of birds in space and time. Nature 491: 444–448.

[L58] Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii: Holmiae.

[M02] Mlíkovský, J. 2002. Cenozoic Birds of the World. Part 1: Europe. Ninox Press: Praha.

[P89] Parona, C. 1889. Sopra alcuni elminti di Vertebrati birmani raccolti da Leonardo Fea. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, Serie 2^a, 7: 765–780.

[RN72] Rutgers, A., & K. A. Norris (eds.) 1972. Encyclopaedia of Aviculture vol. 2. Blandford Press: London.