Classification

Original description

Citation:
  (Scopoli, GA 1769)

Reference:
   Annus I Hist.-Nat.

Protonym:
  Strix alba

Type locality:
  'Ex Foro Juli' = Friuli, Italy.

Link:
  https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31117670#page/25/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  7082E5691B25FAF3

Avibase ID:
  avibase-7082E569

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/7082E569

Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 177851

Geographic range:

• Tyto alba alba: western and southern Europe; western Canary Islands, and North Africa
• Tyto alba guttata: central Europe eastward to Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine, and southeastward to Albania, Macedonia, Romania, and northeastern Greece
• Tyto alba ernesti: Corsica and Sardinia
• Tyto alba erlangeri: Crete and Cyprus to southwestern Iran, northeastern Egypt, and southern Arabian Peninsula
• Tyto alba schmitzi: Madeira and Porto Santo islands (Madeira Archipelago)
• Tyto alba gracilirostris: eastern Canary Islands (Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, and Alegranza)
• Tyto alba [poensis, affinis or hypermetra]: sub-Saharan Africa (including Bioko, Zanzibar, and Pemba), Comoros, and Madagascar
• Tyto alba thomensis: São Tomé (Gulf of Guinea)
• Tyto alba detorta: Cape Verde Islands
• Tyto furcata [furcata or niveicauda]: Cuba, Cayman Islands, and Jamaica
• Tyto furcata [pratincola or lucayana]: southern Canada to northern Mexico, Bermuda, Bahamas, and Hispaniola
• Tyto furcata [guatemalae or subandeana]: western Guatemala to Panama including Pearl Islands, and Colombia
• Tyto furcata bondi: Bay Islands off northern Honduras (Roatán and Guanaja)
• Tyto furcata hellmayri: Isla Margarita (off Venezuela), Trinidad and Tobago, and the Guianas to northern Brazil
• Tyto furcata contempta: western Colombia to Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru
• Tyto furcata [tuidara or zottae]: Brazil south of the Amazon River to Tierra del Fuego and Falkland Islands
• Tyto furcata bargei: Curaçao
• Tyto furcata punctatissima: Galapagos
• Tyto javanica javanica: Malay Peninsula to Greater Sundas
• Tyto javanica sumbaensis: Sumba (Lesser Sundas)
• Tyto javanica delicatula: Timor to Australia, Solomon Islands, Loyalty Islands (New Caledonia), and Samoa
• Tyto javanica interposita: Reef, Nendö, and Vanikoro (Temotu, southeastern Solomon Islands), and Banks Islands to Efate (northern to central Vanuatu)
• Tyto javanica meeki: eastern New Guinea, including Manam and Karkar islands
• Tyto javanica stertens: Indian subcontinent to northern Sri Lanka, southwestern China, and southern Thailand
• Tyto javanica crassirostris: Tanga Island, off New Ireland (northeastern Bismarck Archipelago)
• Tyto deroepstorffi: southern Andaman Islands
• Tyto glaucops glaucops: Hispaniola including Tortue Island
• Tyto glaucops insularis: St. Vincent and Grenada and satellite islands (southern Lesser Antilles)
• Tyto glaucops nigrescens: Dominica (Lesser Antilles)
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