Puerto Rican Barn Owl

Puerto Rican Barn Owl
Tibiotarsus and tarsometatarsus
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Strigiformes
Family: Tytonidae
Genus: Tyto
Species: T. cavatica
Binomial name
Tyto cavatica
Wetmore, 1920[1]

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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