Tyto noeli Arredondo, 1972
Noel’s giant barn owl, Noel’s barn owl, Lechuza gigante de Noel
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Tyto noelli Arredondo, 1972; Tyto neddi Steadman & Hilgartner, 1999:76
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene?
Distribution
Barbuda, Cuba & Jamaica
Originally described from the Quaternary of Cuba (Arredondo, 1972), its biogeographical limits were extended to Jamaica by (Suárez & Olson, 2015).
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Arredondo, Oscar. (1972). Nueva Especie de Ave Fósil (Strigiformes: Tytonidae) del Pleistoceno Superior de Cuba. Boletin de la Sociedad Venezolana Ciencias Naturales 29: 415-431.
Other references:
Arredondo, Oscar. (1982). Los Strigiformes fosiles del Pleistoceno Cubano. Boletín de la Sociedad Venezolana de Ciencias Naturales 37: 33-55.
Arredondo O and Olson SL (1976) The great predatory birds of the Pleistocene of Cuba. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 27, 169–187.
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)]
Steadman, David W. and William B. Hilgartner. (1999). A New Species of Extinct Barn Owl (Aves: Tyto) from Barbuda, Lesser Antilles. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 89: 75-83.
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
Suárez W and Díaz-Franco S (2003) A new fossil bat (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from a Quaternary cave deposit in Cuba. Caribbean Journal of Science 39, 371–377
Suárez, William and Olson, Storrs L. (2015). Systematics and distribution of the giant fossil barn owls of the West Indies (Aves: Strigiformes: Tytonidae). Zootaxa 4020(3): 533-553.
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.