Biology:Puerto Rican barn owl

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Short description: Species of bird

Puerto Rican barn owl
Temporal range: Late Pleistocene-Holocene
Tyto cavatica.jpg
Tibiotarsus and tarsometatarsus
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Strigiformes
Family: Tytonidae
Genus: Tyto
Species:
T. cavatica
Binomial name
Tyto cavatica

The Puerto Rican barn owl (Tyto cavatica) is an extinct species of barn owl that inhabited the island of Puerto Rico in the Caribbean.[1] It is sometimes considered to be a subspecies of the ashy-faced owl (Tyto glaucops).

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Wetmore, Alexander (1920). "Five New Species of Birds from Cave Deposits in Porto Rico". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 33: 77–82. 

Wikidata ☰ Q7258592 entry