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Puerto Rican barn owl

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Puerto Rican barn owl
Tibiotarsus and tarsometatarsus
Scientific 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, and may have survived until 1912.

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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