Blakiston’s Fish-Owl

Blakiston\'s Fish-Owl / Ketupa blakistoni

Blakiston's Fish-Owl

Here the details of the Blakiston's Fish-Owl named bird below:

SCI Name:  Ketupa blakistoni
Protonym:  Bubo blakistoni Ibis p.42
Taxonomy:  Strigiformes / Strigidae /
Taxonomy Code:  blfowl1
Type Locality:  Hokkaido, Japan; type from Hakodate, fide Hartert.
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Publish Year:  1884
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

KETUPA
(Strigidae; Ϯ Buffy Fish Owl K. ketupu) Javanese name Blo-ketupu for the Buffy Fish Owl (cf. Malay name Ketupok; specific name Strix ketupu Horsfield, 1821); "IX.e Sous-genre KETUPU; Ketupa.  Caractères des chats-huans; tête surmontée de deux huppes déjetées en arrière; tarses complétement nus et réticulés.   44. KETUPU JAVANAIS; Ketupa javanensisStrix ceylonensis, Lath.; Temm., pl. 74; Strix ketupa, Horsf., Trans., t. XIII, p. 141; Blo-Ketupu des Javanais.   ...   45. KETUPU LESCHENAULT; Ketupa LeschenaultiiStrix Leschenault, Temm., pl. 20.  ...  Habite les provinces orientales de l'Inde, où on le nomme peroun-rotan." (Lesson 1830). “Ketupu should be written Ketupa. It is better not to introduce barbarous names into science; but when done, they should at least have a Latin termination given them.” (Strickland 1841); "Ketupa Lesson, Traité d'Orn., livr. 2, 1830, p. 114. Type, by tautonymy, Ketupa javanensis Lesson = Strix ketupu Horsfield." (Peters 1940, IV, 121).
Var. CetupaKerupaKetupu, Retupa.
Synon. Cultrunguis, Gymnopus, Nyctaetus, Ophtalmomegas, Smilonyx.

blakistoni
Capt. Thomas Wright Blakiston (1832-1892) English naturalist, explorer in Canada, China and Japan (syn. Alauda arvensis pekinensis, subsp. Anthus spinoletta, Bubo, syn. Delichon dasypus, syn. Locustella ochotensis, syn. Motacilla alba lugens, subsp. Turnix suscitator).

SUBSPECIES

Blakiston's Fish-Owl (piscivora)
SCI Name: Ketupa blakistoni piscivora

Blakiston's Fish-Owl (doerriesi)
SCI Name: Ketupa blakistoni doerriesi
doerriesi
Friedrich Dörries (1852-1953) German collector, explorer in Siberia (subsp. Bubo blakistoni, syn. Bubo bubo ussuriensis, syn. Falco tinnunculus, subsp. Picoides canicapillus).

Blakiston's Fish-Owl (karafutonis)
SCI Name: Ketupa blakistoni karafutonis
karafutonis
Japanese name Karafuto for the island of Sakhalin.

Blakiston's Fish-Owl (blakistoni)
SCI Name: Ketupa blakistoni blakistoni
blakistoni
Capt. Thomas Wright Blakiston (1832-1892) English naturalist, explorer in Canada, China and Japan (syn. Alauda arvensis pekinensis, subsp. Anthus spinoletta, Bubo, syn. Delichon dasypus, syn. Locustella ochotensis, syn. Motacilla alba lugens, subsp. Turnix suscitator).