Ninox

Ninox is a genus of true owls comprising about 30 species found in Asia and Australasia. Many species are known as hawk owls or boobooks. Note that the northern hawk-owl Surnia ulula is not a member of this genus. Molecular analysis indicates the genus is an early offshoot from the ancestors of the rest of the true owls, and are maybe best-classified in a subfamily Ninoxinae with the genera Sceloglaux and Uroglaux. The genus was introduced by the English naturalist Brian Houghton Hodgson in 1837.

The species of Ninox are:

  • Rufous owl, Ninox rufa
  • Powerful owl, Ninox strenua
  • Barking owl, Ninox connivens
  • Sumba boobook, Ninox rudolfi
  • Little Sumba hawk-owl, Ninox sumbaensis
  • Morepork, Ninox novaeseelandiae
  • Norfolk boobook, Ninox novaeseelandiae undulata - extinct (1996)
  • Lord Howe boobook, Ninox novaeseelandiae albaria - extinct (1950s)
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