Well - if you click on the link in the Wiki article you get to Southern
Boobook so it is clearly NOT a new species!
On 29/01/2008, Carl Clifford <> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> While trying to unravel the mystery of Ninox novaehollandiae, I have
> come across an interesting piece of trivia, which might be useful for
> anyone who sets Trivia Night questions. In the Disc World series of
> books by Terry Pratchett, the pricipal city is Ankh-Morpork. The coat
> of arms of Ankh-Morpork is crested with a Morpork holding an ankh. I
> have not been able to trace the range of the Australasian Morpork
> Ninox novaeseelandiae as far as Disc World. The heraldic Morpork must
> be a previously un-described species, for which I nominate the the
> Taxonomic name Ninox mundus-orbis.
>
> If anyone would like to see the Ankh-Morporkian Coat of Arms, it can
> be found at :
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankh-Morpork
>
> Cheers,
>
> Carl Clifford
>
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