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Horned owl
| Horned owls and eagle-owls Temporal range: Late Pliocene to present
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| Indian eagle-owl (Bubo bengalensis) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Strigiformes |
| Family: | Strigidae |
| Genus: | Bubo Duméril, 1805 |
| Type species | |
| Strix bubo Linnaeus, 1758
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| Synonyms | |
The American (North and South America) horned owls and the Old World eagle-owls make up the genus Bubo, at least as traditionally described. The genus name Bubo is Latin for owl. Its name in Russian филин (Russian for 'filin') is one of the few native Russian words containing the letter Ф.
This genus contains 10 species that are found in many parts of the world. Some of the largest living Strigiformes are in Bubo. Traditionally, only owls with ear-tufts were included in this genus, but that is no longer the case.
- ^ Possibly a junior synonym of Ketupa, if that is a valid genus: Pavia (1999), Mlíkovský (2002, 2003).
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