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Ornimegalonyx ewingi Suárez, 2020

Ewing’s owl, Búho de Ewing

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Ornimegalonyx species 2 (Tyrberg, 2009:93)

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene?

 

Distribution

Cuba

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

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.

 

Other references:

Arredondo O (1982) Los strigiformes fosiles del Pleistoceno Cubano. Sociedad Venezolana de Ciencias Naturales Boletin 37, 33–55.

Louchart A (2005) Integrating the fossil record in the study of insular body size evolution. Monogra; es de la Societat d’Història Natural de les Balears 12, 155–174.

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. 

 

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