| a new species of masked-owl (aves: strigiformes: tytonidae) from seram, indonesia. | we describe a new species of masked-owl from the lower montane forest of seram, one of the largest islands in the moluccas of eastern indonesia, for which we propose the name tyto almae (seram masked-owl), sp. nov. molecular (mitochondrial cyt-b) differences show that tyto sororcula of buru and tanimbar is closely related to t novaehollandiae of australia and new guinea (-1% uncorrected pairwise distance), and that tyto almae of seram differs by -3% (uncorrected pairwise distance) from both of t ... | 2013 | 26097930 |