Classification

Original description

Citation:
  (Linnaeus, C 1758)

Reference:
   Systema Naturae ed. 10 1 p.92

Protonym:
  Strix Scops

Type locality:
  Europe, restricted type locality, Italy.

Link:
  https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277#page/110/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  1B50D13B21BE4261

Avibase ID:
  avibase-1B50D13B

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/1B50D13B

Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 555376

Geographic range:

• Otus scops scops: France and Mediterranean islands to Volga River, northern Greece, and Transcaucasia
• Otus scops mallorcae: Iberian Peninsula, Balearic Islands, northern Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia
• Otus scops cycladum: southern Greece and Crete, southern Türkiye, Israel, and Jordan
• Otus scops turanicus: Iraq through Iran and southern Transcaspia to northwestern Pakistan
• Otus scops pulchellus: Volga River to Lake Baikal and southward to Altai and Tien Shan Mountains
• Otus cyprius: Cyprus
• Otus sunia sunia: northern Pakistan to Bangladesh and northern India
• Otus sunia malayanus: southern China (Yunnan to eastern Guangdong); at least partially migratory, wintering to the southern Malay Peninsula and perhaps to northern Sumatra
• Otus sunia rufipennis: southern India
• Otus sunia leggei: Sri Lanka
• Otus sunia modestus: Andaman Islands
• Otus sunia distans: Myanmar through Indochina
• Otus sunia nicobaricus: Nicobar Islands
• Otus sunia stictonotus: breeds southeastern Siberia to northeastern China, Sakhalin Island, and northern Korea; winters southeastern China south at least to southern Thailand
• Otus sunia japonicus: breeds Japan; at least partially migratory, but winter range not well documented
• Otus mindorensis: montane forest of Mindoro (Philippines)
• Otus elegans: Ryukyu Islands, Daito Islands, and Okinoshima, off south Kyushu (southern Japan) and Taiwan, to far northern Philippines
• Otus elegans elegans: Ryukyu Islands (southern Japan)
• Otus elegans interpositus: Daito Islands (southern Japan)
• Otus elegans botelensis: Lan-yü Island (off southeastern Taiwan)
• Otus elegans calayensis: Philippines: islands in the Batan and Babuyan island groups, including Itbayat, Batan, Sabtang, Calayan, Camiguin Norte, and perhaps others
• Otus mantananensis mantananensis: Mantanani Island (off Borneo); Rasa, and Ursula islands (off Palawan)
• Otus mantananensis romblonis: west-central Philippines (Romblon, Tablas, Sibuyan, Banton, and Semirara)
• Otus mantananensis cuyensis: southwestern Philippines (Cuyo, Dicabaito, and Linapacan)
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