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
Species
see text
Synonyms
Lechusa Miller, 1956
Strixsensu auct. non Linnaeus, 1758 – preoccupied
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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