Ninox
| Ninox | |
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| Morepork (Ninox novaeseelandiae) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Strigiformes |
| Family: | Strigidae |
| Genus: | Ninox Hodgson, 1837 |
| Type species | |
| Strix lugubris Tickell 1833
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Ninox is a genus of true owls comprising about 35 species found in Asia and Australasia. Many species are known as hawk-owls or boobooks, but the northern hawk-owl (Surnia ulula) is not a member of this genus.
Taxonomy[]
The genus was introduced by the English naturalist Brian Houghton Hodgson in 1837 with the type species as Ninox nipalensis, a junior synonym of Strix lugubris Tickell 1833. Strix lugubris is now considered a subspecies of the brown hawk-owl (Ninox scutula lugubris).[1][2]
Species[]
The genus contains 36 species:[3]
- † Laughing owl, Ninox albifacies (extinct)
- Rufous owl, Ninox rufa
- Powerful owl, Ninox strenua
- Barking owl, Ninox connivens
- Sumba boobook, Ninox rudolfi
- Australian boobook, Ninox boobook
- Rote boobook Ninox rotiensis
- Timor boobook Ninox fusca
- Alor boobook, Ninox plesseni
- Morepork, Ninox novaeseelandiae
- Northern boobook, Ninox japonica
- Brown hawk-owl, Ninox scutulata
- Hume's hawk-owl, Ninox obscura
- Chocolate boobook, Ninox randi
- Andaman hawk-owl, Ninox affinis
- Philippine hawk-owl group
- Luzon hawk-owl, Ninox philippensis
- Mindanao hawk-owl, Ninox spilocephala
- Camiguin hawk-owl, Ninox leventisi
- Sulu hawk-owl, Ninox reyi
- Cebu hawk-owl, Ninox rumseyi
- Romblon hawk-owl, Ninox spilonotus
- Mindoro hawk-owl, Ninox mindorensis
- Little Sumba hawk-owl, Ninox sumbaensis
- Togian boobook, Ninox burhani
- Ochre-bellied boobook, Ninox ochracea
- Cinnabar boobook, Ninox ios
- Moluccan boobook group
- Halmahera boobook, Ninox hypogramma
- Buru boobook, Ninox hantu
- Seram boobook, Ninox squamipila
- Tanimbar boobook, Ninox forbesi
- Christmas boobook, Ninox natalis
- Manus boobook, Ninox meeki
- Papuan boobook, Ninox theomacha
- Speckled boobook, Ninox punctulata
- New Britain boobook, Ninox odiosa
- New Ireland boobook, Ninox variegata
Genomic studies of the extinct laughing owl of New Zealand indicate that it actually belongs in Ninox rather than the monotypic genus Sceloglaux.[4] The fossil owls "Otus" wintershofensis and "Strix" brevis, both from the Early or Middle Miocene of Wintershof, Germany, are close to this genus; the latter was sometimes explicitly placed in Ninox (Olson 1985), but is now in . "Strix" edwardsi from the Late Miocene of La Grive St. Alban, France, might also belong into this group.[citation needed]
In human culture[]
- "NINOX" is an Australian Army project to develop night-vision goggles; it is named after Ninox strenua.
References[]
- ^ Hodgson, Brian Houghton (1837). "Indication of a new genus belonging to the Strigine family, with description of the new species and type". Madras Journal of Literature and Science. 5: 23–25.
- ^ Dickinson, E.C.; Remsen, J.V., Jr., eds. (2013). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Non-passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 258. ISBN 978-0-9568611-0-8.
|volume=has extra text (help) - ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2021). "Owls". IOC World Bird List Version 11.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
- ^ Wood, Jamie R.; Mitchell, Kieren J.; Scofield, R. Paul; Pietri, Vanesa L. De; Rawlence, Nicolas J.; Cooper, Alan (2016). "Phylogenetic relationships and terrestrial adaptations of the extinct laughing owl, Sceloglaux albifacies (Aves: Strigidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 0. doi:10.1111/zoj.12483. ISSN 1096-3642.
- Olson, Storrs L. (1985): IX.C. Strigiformes. In: Farner, D.S.; King, J.R. & Parkes, Kenneth C. (eds.): Avian Biology 8: 129–132. Academic Press, New York.
Further reading[]
- Gwee, CC.Y.; Christidis, L.; Eaton, J.A.; Norman, J.A.; Trainor, C.R.; Verbelen, P.; Rheindt, F.E. (2017). "Bioacoustic and multi-locus DNA data of Ninox owls support high incidence of extinction and recolonisation on small, low-lying islands across Wallacea". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 109: 246–58. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.12.024. PMID 28017857.
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