Tyto
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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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Tyto | |
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African grass owl, Tyto capensis The "grass owls" are two rather long-legged species of Tyto. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Strigiformes |
Family: | Tytonidae |
Subfamily: | Tytoninae |
Genus: | Tyto Billberg, 1828 |
Type species | |
Strix flammea[1] = Strix alba Linnaeus, 1766 | |
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