Athene cretensis Weesie, 1982
Cretan owl, Cretan little ow
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Armathia and Crete, Greece
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Weesie, P. D. M. (1982). A Pleistocene endemic island form within the genus Athene: Athene cretensis n. sp. (Aves, Strigiformes) from Crete. Proc. Kon. Neder. Akad. Weten., Series B, 85(3): 323-336.
Other references:
Mlíkovský, Jiří. (2002). Cenozoic Birds of the World: Part 1: Europe. Praha, Czech Republic: Ninox Press. 406 pp.
Pieper, H. (1984). Eine neue Mesocricetus-Art (Mammalia Cricetidae) von der griechischen Insel Armathia. Stuttgarter Beitr Naturkunde Ser B (Geol Palaontologie) 107: 1-9.
Sayol, Ferran, Steinbauer, Manuel J., Blackburn, Tim M., Antonelli, Alexandre and Faurby, Søren. (2020). Anthropogenic extinctions conceal widespread evolution of flightlessness in birds. Science Advances 6(49): eabb6095. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb6095 [Supplementary Material (Data File S1)]
Tyrberg, Tommy. (2009). Holocene avian extinctions, pp. 63-106. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.
Weesie, P. D. M. (1987). The Quaternary avifauna of Crete, Greece - Ph D thesis, Univ of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Weesie PDM (1988) The Quaternary avifauna of Crete, Greece. Palaeovertebrata 18, 1–94.