Bubo osvaldoi Arredondo & Olson, 1994
Cuban horned owl, Osvaldo’s owl, Búho de Osvaldo
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Quaternary
Distribution
Cuba
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: MNHNCu-27.1 / MNHNCu-75.000027
Type locality: "Cueva del Mono Fosil, southern side of the Sierra de Galeras, Cordillera de Guaniguanico, Municipality of Vinales, Province of Pinar del Rio, Cuba."
Paratypes:
For a list of topotypical and normal paratypes see the original description: http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/global_owl_project/descriptions/Fossil_owls/Bubo%20osvaldoi%20(Arredondo%20&%20Olson)%201994.pdf
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Arredondo, Oscar and Storrs L. Olson. (1994). A New Species of Owl of the Genus Bubo from the Pleistocene of Cuba (Aves: Strigiformes). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 107: 436-444.
Other references:
Herrera-Uria, Jane et al. (2015). Type specimens housed in the National Museum of Natural History of Cuba. Solenodon 12: 84-123.
Orihuela, Johanset. (2019). An annotated list of late Quaternary extinct birds of Cuba. Ornitología Neotropical 30: 57-67.
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)]
Suárez, William. (2020). Remarks on extinct giant owls (Strigidae) from Cuba, with description of a new species of Ornimegalonyx Arredondo. Bull. B.O.C. 140(4): 387-392.
Suárez, William. (2022). Catalogue of Cuban fossil and subfossil birds. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 142(1): 10-74. https://doi.org/10.25226/bboc.v142i1.2022.a3
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