Athene cunicularia ssp. nov. 'Puerto Rico'
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Athene undescribed sp Milberg & Tyrberg, 1993:243; Athene undescribed small species (Tyrberg, 2009:94)
Conservation Status
Extinct
Distribution
Puerto Rico
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Milberg, Per and Tyrberg, Tommy. (1993). Naïve birds and noble savages - a review of man-caused prehistoric extinctions of island birds. Ecography 16: 229-250.
Olson SL (1985) Pleistocene birds of Puerto Rico. National Geographic Society Research Reports 18, 563–566.
Pregill, Gregory K. and Olson, Storrs L. (1981). Zoogeography of West Indian Vertebrates in Relation to Pleistocene Climatic Cycles. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 12: 75-98.
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.
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