Athene cunicularia guadeloupensis (Ridgway, 1874:90)
Marie-Galante burrowing owl, Guadeloupe burrowing owl (erroneous)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Speotyto cunicularia guadeloupensis Ridgway, 1874:90 (original combination)
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: c.1890 (Marks et al., 1999)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Marie-Galante, Guadeloupe, West Indies
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: Mus. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist.
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Ridgway, Robert. (1874). In: Baird SF, Brewer TM, Ridgway R (eds) A history of North American birds; Land birds. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 3, 90.
Other references:
BirdLife International. (2012). Athene cunicularia. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 21 May 2013.
Hume, Julian Pender and Walters, Michael. (2012). Extinct Birds. AT & D Poyser.
Marks, J.S., Cannings, R.J. and Mikkola, H. (1999). Family Strigidae (Typical Owls). In Handbook of the Birds of the World Volume 5: Barn-owls to Hummingbirds (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott and J. Sargatal eds). Barcelona, Spain: Lynx Edicions.
Matthews, Thomas J., Wayman, Joseph P., Cardoso, Pedro, Sayol, Ferran, Hume, Julian P., Ulrich, Werner, Tobias, Joseph A., Soares, Filipa C., Thébaud, Christophe, Martin, Thomas E. and Triantis, Kostas A. (2022). Threatened and extinct island endemic birds of the world: Distribution, threats and functional diversity. Journal of Biogeography 49(11): 1920-1940. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14474 [Appendix S1 (.docx); Appendix S2 (.pdf)]
Ridgway R (1914) Birds of North and Middle America. Striges. US Nat Mus Bull 50:594–825.
Sharpe RB (1875a) Catalogue of birds of the British Museum 2: 1-314.
Weick, Friedhelm. (2006). Owls (Strigiformes): Annotated and Illustrated Checklist. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.