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African wood owl
The African wood owl or Woodford's owl (Strix woodfordii) is a typical owl from the genus Strix in the family Strigidae which is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Alphonse Milne-Edwards
Alphonse Milne-Edwards (Paris, 13 October 1835 – Paris, 21 April 1900) was a French mammalologist, ornithologist and carcinologist.
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Anhinga
The anhinga (Anhinga anhinga), sometimes called snakebird, darter, American darter, or water turkey, is a water bird of the warmer parts of the Americas.
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Barn-owl
Barn owls (family Tytonidae) are one of the two families of owls, the other being the true owls or typical owls, Strigidae.
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Barred owl
The barred owl (Strix varia), also known as northern barred owl or hoot owl, is a true owl native to eastern North America.
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Bird
Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.
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Black-and-white owl
The black-and-white owl (Strix nigrolineata) is a species of owl in the family Strigidae.
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Black-banded owl
The black-banded owl (Strix huhula) is a species of owl in the family Strigidae.
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Brown fish owl
The brown fish owl (Ketupa zeylonensis) is a species of owl that is part of the family known as typical owls, Strigidae, which contains most living owls.
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Brown wood owl
The Brown Wood Owl (Strix leptogrammica) is an owl which is a resident breeder in south Asia from India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, east to western Indonesia, and south China.
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Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von LinnéBlunt (2004), p. 171.
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Chaco owl
The Chaco owl (Strix chacoensis) is an owl which inhabits dry Chaco woodland in southern Bolivia, western Paraguay and northern Argentina.
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Chronospecies
A chronospecies is a species derived from a sequential development pattern which involves continual and uniform changes from an extinct ancestral form on an evolutionary scale.
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Ciccaba
Ciccaba was a small genus of typical owls found in the Americas.
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Cinereous owl
The cinereous owl (Strix sartorii), or Mexican barred owl, is an owl which occurs in central Mexico.
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Coracoid
A coracoid is a paired bone which is part of the shoulder assembly in all vertebrates except therian mammals (therians.
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Desert owl
The desert owl or desert tawny owl (Strix hadorami), formerly known as Hume's owl, is a species of owl.
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Early Miocene
The Early Miocene (also known as Lower Miocene) is a sub-epoch of the Miocene Epoch made up of two stages: the Aquitanian and Burdigalian stages.
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Edward Blyth
Edward Blyth (23 December 1810 – 27 December 1873) was an English zoologist who worked for most of his life in India as a curator of zoology at the museum of the Asiatic Society of India in Calcutta.
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Evolution
Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
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Fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.
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Fulvous owl
The fulvous owl (Strix fulvescens), or Guatemala barred owl, is a bold member of the cloud forests of Central America.
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Genus
A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.
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Great grey owl
The great grey owl or great gray owl (Strix nebulosa) is a very large owl, documented as the world's largest species of owl by length.
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Himalayan owl
The Himalayan owl (Strix nivicolum), also known as the Himalayan wood owl, is an owl of the forests of the Himalayas and Taiwan.
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Horned owl
The American (North and South America) horned owls and the Old World eagle-owls make up the genus Bubo, at least as traditionally described.
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Lapsus
A lapsus (Latin for "lapse, slip, error") is an involuntary mistake made while writing or speaking, something long studied in philology.
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Latin
Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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List of museums and collections at the University of Michigan
The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor is home to a number of museums.
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Mammal
Mammals are the vertebrates within the class Mammalia (from Latin mamma "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles (including birds) by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands.
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Mauritius owl
The extinct Mauritius owl (Mascarenotus sauzieri), also called Commerson's, Sauzier's or Newton's owl, was endemic to the Mascarene island of Mauritius.
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Mottled owl
The mottled owl (Strix virgata) is a medium-sized owl found in Central and South America from Mexico to Brazil and Argentina.
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Mottled wood owl
The mottled wood owl (Strix ocellata) is a species of large owl found in India.
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Neuroptera
The insect order Neuroptera, or net-winged insects, includes the lacewings, mantidflies, antlions, and their relatives.
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Nocturnality
Nocturnality is an animal behavior characterized by being active during the night and sleeping during the day.
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Nomen nudum
The phrase nomen nudum (plural nomina nuda) is a Latin term, meaning "naked name", used in taxonomy (especially in zoological and botanical nomenclature).
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Northern spotted owl
The northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) is one of three spotted owl subspecies.
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Omani owl
The Omani owl (Strix butleri) is an owl of the genus Strix found in Oman, Iran and UAE.
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Oraristrix
Oraristix brea, the Brea owl, is an extinct owl reported from the upper Pleistocene asphalt deposits of Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, California.
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Owl
Owls are birds from the order Strigiformes, which includes about 200 species of mostly solitary and nocturnal birds of prey typified by an upright stance, a large, broad head, binocular vision, binaural hearing, sharp talons, and feathers adapted for silent flight.
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Père David's owl
The Père David's owl (Strix davidi) is an owl found in the mountains of central China (Qinghai and Sichuan).
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Reptile
Reptiles are tetrapod animals in the class Reptilia, comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives.
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Rexroad Formation
The Rexroad Formation is a geologic formation in Kansas.
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Rodrigues owl
The Rodrigues owl (Mascarenotus murivorus), also known as Leguat's owl or (somewhat misleadingly) Rodrigues little owl, was a small owl.
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Rufous-banded owl
The rufous-banded owl (Strix albitarsis) is a species of owl in the family Strigidae.
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Rufous-legged owl
The rufous-legged owl (Strix rufipes) is a medium-sized owl with no ear tufts.
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Rusty-barred owl
The rusty-barred owl (Strix hylophila) is a species of owl distributed mainly in the south of Brazil (where it is known as the Brazilian owl) and further inland to Paraguay and the extreme northeast of Argentina.
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Species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.
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Specific name (zoology)
In zoological nomenclature, the specific name (also specific epithet or species epithet) is the second part (the second name) within the scientific name of a species (a binomen).
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Spotted owl
The spotted owl (Strix occidentalis) is a species of true owl.
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Spotted wood owl
The spotted wood owl (Strix seloputo) is an owl of the earless owl genus, Strix.
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Storrs L. Olson
Storrs Lovejoy Olson (born April 3, 1944) is an American biologist and ornithologist who spent his career the Smithsonian Institution, retiring in 2008.
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Strix (mythology)
Strix (pl. striges or strixes), in the mythology of classical antiquity, was a bird of ill omen, the product of metamorphosis, that fed on human flesh and blood.
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Synonym (taxonomy)
In scientific nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name,''ICN'', "Glossary", entry for "synonym" although the term is used somewhat differently in the zoological code of nomenclature.
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Tawny owl
The tawny owl or brown owl (Strix aluco) is a stocky, medium-sized owl commonly found in woodlands across much of Eurasia.
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Taxonomy (biology)
Taxonomy is the science of defining and naming groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics.
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The Auk
The Auk: Ornithological Advances is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal and the official publication of the American Ornithological Society (AOS).
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True owl
The true owls or typical owls (family Strigidae) are one of the two generally accepted families of owls, the other being the barn owls (Tytonidae).
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Tyto
Tyto is a genus of birds consisting of true barn owls, grass owls and masked owls that collectively make up all the species within the subfamily Tytoninae of the barn owl family, Tytonidae.
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Ural owl
The Ural owl (Strix uralensis) is a medium-sized nocturnal owl of the genus Strix, with up to 15 subspecies found in Europe and northern Asia.
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10th edition of Systema Naturae
The 10th edition of Systema Naturae is a book written by Carl Linnaeus and published in two volumes in 1758 and 1759, which marks the starting point of zoological nomenclature.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strix_(genus)
