Otus murivorus (Milne-Edwards, 1873:13)
Rodrigues owl, Rodrigues lizard-owl, Leguat's owl
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Mascarenotus murivorus (Milne-Edwards, 1873:13); Strix (Athene) murivora Milne-Edwards, 1873:13 (original combination); Bubo (?) legauti (Rothschild, 1907); Strix murivora (Milne-Edwards, 1873:13); Carine murivora (Milne-Edwards, 1873:13); Athene murivora (Milne-Edwards, 1873:13)
Bubo legauti is probably a synonym of Otus murivorus (Cheke, 1987).
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1726 (Kittelberger et al., 2024)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Rodrigues, Mascarene Islands
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Milne-Edwards, Alphonse (1873). Recherches sur la Faune Ancienne des Îles Mascareignes. Annales des Sciences naturelles, Vème série, Zoologie, Paris, tome XIX, 31 pp., pl. 11-15.
Or,
Milne-Edwards, Alphonse. (1873). Recherches sur la Faune Ancienne de l'Ile Rodrigues. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences ( Paris) 77: 810-814.
Other references:
BirdLife International. (2012). Mascarenotus murivorus. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 08 December 2012.
BirdLife International. (2016). Mascarenotus murivorus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22728856A94999047. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22728856A94999047.en. Accessed on 02 July 2022.
Brooks, T. 2000. Extinct species. In: BirdLife International (ed.), Threatened Birds of the World, pp. 701-708. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona and Cambridge, U.K.
Cheke, Anthony S. (1987). Observations on the surviving endemic birds of Rodrigues. In: Diamond, A.W. (ed.), Studies in Mascarene island birds, pp. 364-402. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.
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, G. S. 1987. The fossil record. In: Diamond, A.W. (ed.), Studies of Mascarene Island birds, pp. 90-100. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.
Duhamel, Anaïs et al. (2020). Cranial evolution in the extinct Rodrigues Island owl Otus murivorus (Strigidae), associated with unexpected ecological adaptations. Scientific Reports 10: 14019. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-69868-1 [Supplementary Information]
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Günther, A. and Newton, Edward. (1879). The Extinct Birds of Rodriguez. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 168: 423-437, plates 41-43.
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A. and Fishpool, L.D.C. 2014. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Non-passerines. Lynx Edicions BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.
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.
Hume, Julian Pender and Walters, Michael. (2012). Extinct Birds. London: T & AD Poyser.
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)]
Leguat, F. (1708). Voyage et aventures de Francois Leguat et des ses compagnons en deux isles desertes des Indes Orientales. 180 pp. London (David Mortier, Marchand Làbraire).
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, 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.
Rothschild, Lionel Walter Rothschild. (1907). Extinct birds: an attempt to write in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times, that is within the last six or seven hundred years: to which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction. London: Hutchinson & Co. XXIX + 243 pp. [p. 71 as Bubo leguati; p. 75 as Otus murivorus]
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)]
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