Pulsatrix

{{Short description|Genus of birds}}

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{{Automatic taxobox

| name = Spectacled owls

| image = Pulsatrix perspicillata.jpg

| image_caption = Pulsatrix perspicillata

| type_species = Strix torquata{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=72 |title= Strigidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-26}}

| type_species_authority = Daudin, 1800

| taxon = Pulsatrix

| authority = Kaup, 1848

}}

Pulsatrix is a genus of owl in the family Strigidae. They are called spectacled owls because of their prominent facial pattern. The genus contains the following species:

{{Species table |genus=Pulsatrix |authority-name=Kaup |authority-year=1848 |species-count=three|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}

{{Species table/row

|name=Spectacled owl |binomial=Pulsatrix perspicillata

|image=File:Pulsatrix perspicillata chapmani (Costa Rica).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Latham |authority-year=1790 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= Mexico, Central America (Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama), Trinidad and Tobago, and South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Suriname, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina).

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|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Six subspecies |bullets=on

| Pulsatrix perspicillata boliviana (Kelso, 1933)

| Pulsatrix perspicillata chapmani (Griscom, 1932)

| Pulsatrix perspicillata perspicillata (Latham, 1790)

| Pulsatrix perspicillata pulsatrix (Wied-Neuwied, 1820)

| Pulsatrix perspicillata saturata (Ridgway, 1914)

| Pulsatrix perspicillata trinitatis (Bangs & T. E. Penard, 1918)

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{{Species table/row

|name=Tawny-browed owl|binomial=Pulsatrix koeniswaldiana

|image=File:Pulsatrix koeniswaldiana -Parque Estadual da Serra da Cantareira, Sao Paulo, Brasil-8.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Bertoni, MS & Bertoni, AW|authority-year= 1901 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay.

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|name=Band-bellied owl|binomial=Pulsatrix melanota

|image=File:Pulsatrix melanota 132819117.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Tschudi|authority-year=1844 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.

|range-image=File:Pulsatrix melanota map.svg

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|P. m. melanota

|P. m. philoscia

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Pulsatrix arredondoi is a fossil species from the Late Pleistocene of Cueva de Paredones, Cuba.