Puerto Rican barn owl

Puerto Rican barn owl
Temporal range: Late Pleistocene-Holocene
Tibiotarsus and tarsometatarsus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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. ^ a b Wetmore, Alexander (1920). "Five New Species of Birds from Cave Deposits in Porto Rico". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 33: 77–82.
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