The genus contains 37 species: • †
Laughing owl,
Ninox albifacies (extinct) •
Rufous owl,
Ninox rufa •
Powerful owl,
Ninox strenua •
Barking owl,
Ninox connivens •
Sumba boobook,
Ninox rudolfi •
Australian boobook,
Ninox boobook •
Rote boobook Ninox rotiensis •
Timor boobook Ninox fusca •
Alor boobook,
Ninox plesseni •
Tasmanian boobook,
Ninox leucopsis •
Morepork,
Ninox novaeseelandiae •
Northern boobook,
Ninox japonica •
Brown boobook,
Ninox scutulata •
Hume's boobook,
Ninox obscura •
Chocolate boobook,
Ninox randi •
Andaman boobook,
Ninox affinis •
Philippine hawk-owl group •
Luzon boobook,
Ninox philippensis •
Mindanao boobook,
Ninox spilocephala •
Camiguin boobook,
Ninox leventisi •
Sulu boobook,
Ninox reyi •
Cebu boobook,
Ninox rumseyi •
Romblon boobook,
Ninox spilonotus •
Mindoro boobook,
Ninox mindorensis •
Least boobook,
Ninox sumbaensis •
Togian boobook,
Ninox burhani •
Ochre-bellied boobook,
Ninox ochracea •
Cinnabar boobook,
Ninox ios •
Moluccan boobook group •
Halmahera boobook,
Ninox hypogramma •
Buru boobook,
Ninox hantu •
Seram boobook,
Ninox squamipila •
Tanimbar boobook,
Ninox forbesi •
Christmas boobook,
Ninox natalis •
Manus boobook,
Ninox meeki •
Papuan boobook,
Ninox theomacha •
Speckled boobook,
Ninox punctulata •
New Britain boobook,
Ninox odiosa •
New Ireland boobook,
Ninox variegata Genomic studies of the extinct
laughing owl of
New Zealand indicate that it actually belongs in
Ninox rather than the
monotypic genus
Sceloglaux. The
fossil owls
"Otus" wintershofensis and
"Strix" brevis, both from the Early or Middle
Miocene of Wintershof, Germany, are close to this genus; the latter was sometimes explicitly placed in
Ninox (Olson 1985), but is now in
Intutula.
"Strix" edwardsi from the Late Miocene of La Grive St. Alban, France, might also belong into this group. == In human culture ==