Sulawesi Masked-Owl

SCI Name:  Tyto rosenbergii
Protonym:  Strix Rosenbergii Nederl.Tijdschr.Dierk. 3 p.181
Taxonomy:  Strigiformes / Tytonidae / Tyto
Taxonomy Code:  sulowl1
Type Locality:  Monelido, Boni and Gorontalo, Celebes.
Author:  Schlegel
Publish Year:  1866
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

TYTO
(Tytonidae; Ϯ Common Barn Owl T. alba) Gr. τυτω tutō, τυτους tutous  owl, night-owl; the Common Barn Owl is the most widespread owl in the world, although recent work suggests that some of its subspecies, for example in the Americas and in Australasia, should be elevated to specific status; "1. Strix,  2. Tyto B. (Strix Savigny)." (Billberg 1828); "Tyto Billberg, Syn. Faun. Scand., 1, pt. 2, 1828, tab. A.  Type, by monotypy, Strix flammea auct. = Strix alba Scopoli." (Peters 1940, IV, 77).
Synon. Aluco, Dactylostrix, Eustrinx, Flammea, Glaucostrix, Glaux, Glyphidiura, Heliodilus, Hybris, Megastrix, Nyctimene, Scelostrix, Stridula, Strigymnhemipus, Strix.
● (syn. Strix Ϯ Brown Wood Owl S. leptogrammica) "Genus Tyto Heine [Myrtha (!) Bp. 1854]" (Heine 1890).  A purist replacement name.

rosenbergi / rosenbergii
● William Frederick Henry Rosenberg (1868-1957) British natural history dealer, collector in tropical America (Amazilia, syn. Erythrothlypis salmoni, Nyctiphrynus, subsp. Pittasoma rufopileatum, subsp. Rhytipterna holerythra, subsp. Schiffornis veraepacis, syn. Sipia nigricauda, subsp. Xiphorhynchus susurrans).
● Carl Benjamin Hermann Freiherr von Rosenberg (1817-1888) German naturalist, surveyor, collector in the East Indies (Gymnocrex, syn. Mino anais orientalis, Myzomela, Pitta, syn. Rhipidura threnothorax, Scolopax, Trichoglossus, Tyto).

SUBSPECIES

Sulawesi Masked-Owl (rosenbergii)
SCI Name: Tyto rosenbergii rosenbergii
rosenbergi / rosenbergii
● William Frederick Henry Rosenberg (1868-1957) British natural history dealer, collector in tropical America (Amazilia, syn. Erythrothlypis salmoni, Nyctiphrynus, subsp. Pittasoma rufopileatum, subsp. Rhytipterna holerythra, subsp. Schiffornis veraepacis, syn. Sipia nigricauda, subsp. Xiphorhynchus susurrans).
● Carl Benjamin Hermann Freiherr von Rosenberg (1817-1888) German naturalist, surveyor, collector in the East Indies (Gymnocrex, syn. Mino anais orientalis, Myzomela, Pitta, syn. Rhipidura threnothorax, Scolopax, Trichoglossus, Tyto).

Sulawesi Masked-Owl (pelengensis)
SCI Name: Tyto rosenbergii pelengensis
pelengensis
Peleng I., Banggai Is., Celebes, Dutch East Indies / Sulawesi, Indonesia.