Fish owl

Fish owls form a group of owls in the family Strigidae.[1] Ketupa was proposed as generic name by René-Primevère Lesson in 1831 for fish owl species from Java and India.[2] Results of a phylogenetic analysis of nine horned owl species indicate that Ketupa species form a monophyletic group.[3] Ketupa is therefore thought to merit subgeneric rank comprising the following species:[1]

Not to be confused with fishing owl.

Fish owl
Buffy fish owl
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Strigiformes
Family: Strigidae
Genus: Ketupa
Lesson, 1831

Blakiston's fish owl (Bubo blakistoni) described by Henry Seebohm in 1883 was a fish owl from Japan. It was thought to form the link between Ketupa and Bubo species, as its toes are bare of feathers like in Ketupa species, but it is much larger.[7] Since its first description, it was repeatedly placed in Ketupa.[8]

References
  1. del Hoyo, J.; Collar, N. J.; Christie, D. A.; Elliott, A.; Fishpool, L. D. C. (2014). "Strigidae". In del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D. A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Non-passerines. Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK: Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International.
  2. Lesson, R.-P. (1831). "Sous-genre. Ketupu; Ketupa". Traité d'ornithologie, ou, Tableau méthodique des ordres, sous-ordres, familles, tribus, genres, sous-genres et races d'oiseaux : ouvrage entièrement neuf, formant le catalogue le plus complet des espèces réunies dans les collections publiques de la France. 1. Paris: F. G. Levrault. p. 114.
  3. Omote, K.; Nishida, C.; Dick, M. H.; Masuda, R. (2013). "Limited phylogenetic distribution of a long tandem-repeat cluster in the mitochondrial control region in Bubo (Aves, Strigidae) and cluster variation in Blakiston's fish owl (Bubo blakistoni)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 66 (3): 889–897. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.11.015. PMID 23211719.
  4. Gmelin, J. F. (1788). "Strix zeylonensis". Caroli a Linné, Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. I (13th aucta, reformata ed.). Lipsiae: Georg Emanuel Beer. p. 287.
  5. Horsfield, T. (1821). "Systematic Arrangement and Description of Birds from the Island of Java". Transactions of the Linnean Society. 13 (1): 133–200. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1821.tb00061.x.
  6. Hodgson, B. H. (1836). "On a new Piscatory Genus of the Strigine Family". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 5: 363–365.
  7. Seebohm, H. (1883). "Exhibition of, and remarks upon, a new Owl (Bubo blakistoni) from Yezo". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (20 November): 466.
  8. Spiridonova, L. N.; Surmach, S. G. (2018). "Whole mitochondrial genome of Blakiston's Fish Owl Bubo (Ketupa) blakistoni suggests its redescription in the genus Ketupa". Russian Journal of Genetics. 54 (3): 369–373. doi:10.1134/S1022795418030134.


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