?Tyto letocarti Balouet & Olson, 1989
New Caledonian barn owl, Letocart’s owl
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Balouet & Olson (1989) tentatively placed this taxon in Tyto. However, it is very distinct from all other taxa within the genus Tyto, and may be placed in a different genus when more comparative material is available (Ibid.).
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Holocene
Distribution
New Caledonia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: NCG 1000
Type locality: "Gilles Cave, 5 km WSW of Boulouparis, west coast of New Caledonia. 21°53' 23"S, 166°00' 15"E."
Paratypes:
NCG 1001
NCG 1002
NCG 1003
NCG 1004
NCG 1005
NCG 1006
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Balouet, Jean Christophe and Olson, Storrs L. (1989). Fossil Birds from Late Quaternary Deposits in New Caledonia. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 469: 1-38, 16 figures, 13 tables.
Other references:
Anderson, Atholl, Sand, Christophe, Petchey, Fiona and Worthy, Trevor H. (2010). Faunal Extinction and Human Habitation in New Caledonia: Initial Results and Implications of New Research at the Pindai Caves. Journal of Pacific Archaeology 1(1): 89-109.
Matthews, Thomas J., Wayman, Joseph P., Cardoso, Pedro, Sayol, Ferran, Hume, Julian P., Ulrich, Werner, Tobias, Joseph A., Soares, Filipa C., Thébaud, Christophe, Martin, Thomas E. and Triantis, Kostas A. (2022). Threatened and extinct island endemic birds of the world: Distribution, threats and functional diversity. Journal of Biogeography 49(11): 1920-1940. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14474 [Appendix S1 (.docx); Appendix S2 (.pdf)]
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.