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Athene sp. nov. 'Eubea'

Eubea owl (proposed)

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Holocene?

 

Distribution

Eubea (=Euboea =Euboia), Greece

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Louchart, Antoine. (2005). Integrating the Fossil Record in the Study of Insular Body Size Evolution: Example of Owls (Aves, Strigiformes). In: Alcover, J. A. and Bover, P. (eds.). Proceedings of the International Symposium “Insular Vertebrate Evolution: the Palaeontological Approach”. Monografies de la Societat d’Història Natural de les Balears 12: 155-174.

Prummel W (2005) The avifauna of the Hellenistic town of New Halos, Thessaly, Greece. In Grupe G and Peters J, eds, Feathers, Grit and Symbolism: Birds and Humans in the Ancient Old and New World. Proceedings of the Fifth Meeting of the ICAZ Bird Working Group. Documenta Archaeobiologiae 3, 349–360.

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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