Otus grucheti Mourer-Chauviré, Bour, Moutou & Ribes, 1994
Réunion owl, Réunion lizard-owl
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Mascarenotus grucheti Mourer-Chauviré, Bour, Moutou & Ribes, 1994; "Tyto" sauzieri (Newton & Gadow, 1893)
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1600's or later; 1699 (Kittelberger et al., 2024)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Réunion, Mascarene Islands
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Mourer-Chauviré, C.; Bour, R.; Moutou, F.; Ribes, S. (1994). Mascarenotus nov. gen. (Aves, Strigiformes), genre endémique éteint des Mascareignes et M. grucheti n. sp. espéce éteinte de la Réunion. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences Paris 318: 1699-1706.
Other references:
BirdLife International. (2012). Mascarenotus grucheti. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 08 December 2012.
BirdLife International. 2017. Mascarenotus grucheti (amended version of 2016 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T22728866A119424909. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T22728866A119424909.en. Accessed on 02 July 2022.
Cheke, Anthony S. (2013). Extinct birds of the Mascarenes and Seychelles - a review of the causes of extinction in the light of an important new publication on extinct birds. Phelsuma 21: 4-19.
Cheke, Anthony S. and Hume, Julian Pender. (2008). Lost Land of the Dodo: An Ecological History of Mauritius, Réunion & Rodrigues. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 464 pp.
Cowles, Graham S. (1987). The fossil record, pp. 90-100. In: Diamond, A. W. (ed.). Studies of Mascarene Island Birds. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
Hume, Julian Pender. (2013). A synopsis of the pre-human avifauna of the Mascarene Islands, pp. 195-237. In: Göhlich, U.B. & Kroh, A. (eds.). Proceedings of the 8th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution. Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien.
Kittelberger, Kyle D., Tanner, Colby J., Buxton, Amy N., Prewett, Amira and Şekercioğlu, Çağan Hakkı. (2024). Correlates of avian extinction timing around the world since 1500 CE. Avian Research 15: 100213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100213 [Supplementary data (List of 216 taxa)]
Louchart, Antoine et al. (2018). Ancient DNA reveals the origins, colonization histories, and evolutionary pathways of two recently extinct species of giant scops owl from Mauritius and Rodrigues Islands (Mascarene Islands, south‐western Indian Ocean). Journal of Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13450 [Abstract]
Mourer-Chauviré, C., Bour, Roger and Ribes, S. (2006). Recent avian extinctions on Réunion (Mascarene Islands) from paleontological and historical sources. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 126A: 40-48.
Mourer-Chauviré, C., Bour, R., Ribes, S. & Moutou, F. (1999). The Avifauna of Réunion Island (Mascarene Islands) at the time of the arrival of the first Europeans. In: Olson, S. (ed): Avian Paleontology at the Close of the 20th Century: Proceedings of the 4th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Washington, D.C., 4-7 June 1996. Smithsonian contributions to paleobiology 89: 1-38.
Newton, Edward and Hans Gadow. (1893). On Additional Bones of the Dodo and Other Extinct Birds of Mauritius Obtained by Mr. Theodore Sauzier. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 13, part 7(1):281-302, plates 33-37.
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)]
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.