Ketupa
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Ketupa is a genus of owls in the family Strigidae. The genus formerly contained just three species, the fish owls but based on the results from a genetic study published in 2020, the generic boundaries were altered. The genus now contains twelve species, nine of which were formerly placed in the genus Bubo.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderStrigiformes
- FamilyStrigidae
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Ketupa is a genus of owls in the family Strigidae. The genus formerly contained just three species, the fish owls but based on the results from a genetic study published in 2020, the generic boundaries were altered. The genus now contains twelve species, nine of which were formerly placed in the genus Bubo.
==Taxonomy== The genus Ketupa was introduced in 1830 by the French naturalist René Lesson for fish owl species from Java and India. The type species is, by tautonymy, the buffy fish owl. The genus name is derived from the Malay word Ketupok for the buffy fish owl.