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Birds

🦉American barn owl

Tyto furcata (Temminck, 1827)

La lechuza de los campanarios americana o lechuza común americana (Tyto furcata)​​​ es un taxón correspondiente a un ave estrigiforme con la categoría de especie plena dentro del género Tyto o una subespecie de la especie Tyto alba, la que es una de las aves más ampliamente distribuidas de todo el mundo. Como subespecie se limitaría a algunas de las islas del Caribe: Cuba, Gran Caimán y Jamaica; en tanto que como especie incluiría las poblaciones americanas continentales, desde el sur de Canadá hasta el cabo de Hornos.​

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderStrigiformes
  5. ›familyTytonidae
  6. ›genusTyto
  7. ›speciesTyto furcata
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  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderOwls · Strigiformes
  3. familyTytonidae
  4. genusTyto
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderOwls · Strigiformes
  11. familyTytonidae
  12. genusTyto
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Tyto furcata (pt), Amerika-Schleiereule (de), Tyto furcata (fr), アメリカメンフクロウ (ja), Amerikatårnugle (nb), Tyto furcata (nl) … and 13 more languages
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