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Greyish Eagle-Owl

Bubo cinerascens Guérin-Méneville, 1843

Source-backed taxonomic record

Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.

Greyish Eagle-owl in a cave at the Cliffs near Lake Baringo
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Open encyclopedia reference

The greyish eagle-owl or vermiculated eagle-owl (Bubo cinerascens) is a rather large owl of the northern part of sub-Saharan Africa. It was previously regarded as the northern subspecies of the spotted eagle-owl (Bubo africanus).

Wikipedia contributors, Greyish eagle-owl; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T06:26:41.640633+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.

Identity & source status

Scientific name: Bubo cinerascens Guérin-Méneville, 1843
Name authority: Guérin-Méneville, 1843
Common name: Greyish Eagle-Owl
Rank: species
Accepted status: accepted
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Strigiformes
Family: Strigidae
Genus: Bubo
Extinction status: Recorded extant

Classification family tree

Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.

domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
kingdomAnimalia
phylumChordata
subphylumVertebrata
infraphylumGnathostomata
parvphylumOsteichthyes
megaclassTetrapoda
classAves
orderStrigiformes
familyStrigidae
subfamilyStriginae
genusBubo Duméril, 1805
speciesBubo cinerascens Guérin-Méneville, 1843

Close classified relatives

These entries share the source’s genus, Bubo. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.

Species	Classification	Source status
Indian Eagle-OwlBubo bengalensis (Franklin, 1831)	StrigidaeChordata	Accepted speciesRecorded extant
Desert Eagle OwlBubo ascalaphus Savigny, 1809	StrigidaeChordata	Accepted speciesRecorded extant
Eurasian Eagle-OwlBubo bubo (Linnaeus, 1758)	StrigidaeChordata	Accepted speciesRecorded extant
Snowy OwlBubo scandiacus (Linnaeus, 1758)	StrigidaeChordata	Accepted speciesRecorded extant
Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus (J. F. Gmelin, 1788)	StrigidaeChordata	Accepted speciesRecorded extant

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Names & synonyms

Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.

Recorded name	Source status
Bubo africanus cinerascens Guérin-Méneville, 1843 Guérin-Méneville, 1843	synonym

Documented distribution

Source distribution statements, not a complete range map. A listed locality is not necessarily a place of origin.

Africa

Source literature & publication evidence

References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.

https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=686685 Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references

Origins, evidence & remaining research

Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.

Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record.

Dataset citation & attribution

This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11

Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.

Stable key: col:NKSL. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.