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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

 

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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

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.

https://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/20393/bubo-osvaldoi

 

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