Species profile—Ninox boobook (southern boobook)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Aves (birds) → Strigidae (Hawk Owls) → Ninox boobook (southern boobook)
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Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Aves (birds)
- Family
- Strigidae (Hawk Owls)
- Scientific name
- Ninox boobook (Latham, 1802)
- Common name
- southern boobook
- Type reference
- Strix boobook Latham, J. 1802. Supplementum Indicis Ornithologici, sive Systematis Ornithologiae. London : G. Leigh, J. & S. Sotheby 74 pp.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 1102
- Synonym(s)
- Ninox novaeseelandiae
Ninox novaeseelandiae boobook
Ninox boobook lurida
Ninox novaeseelandiae lurida
Ninox lurida - Alternate name(s)
- mopoke
Australian boobook
spotted owl
gurgurda
morepork - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Species environment
- Terrestrial
Other resources
Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM) Atlas of Living Australia
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=1102
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
