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[Jim LeNomenclatoriste]

But Bubo as defined now is very unlikely to be wrong.
There's at most 8 species in Ketupa that might change genus when new studies come out.
If you lump everything in Bubo now, you need to change 15 species later...

Some will say that this would create small genera unnecessarily so we might as well keep a large genus, even if imperfect. Otherwise, we might as well split Bubo stricto sensu into 3 genera to have a coherent taxonomic balance between each lineage.

 

[Peter Kovalik]

Proposal (977) to SACC

Treat Megascops atricapilla as conspecific with M. watsonii

DID NOT PASS