Tyto riveroi Arredondo, 1972:131
Rivero’s barn owl
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Considered a synonym of T. pollens by (Suárez & Olson, 2015).
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Pleistocene
Distribution
Cuba
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Arredondo, Oscar. (1972). Especie Nueva de Lechuza Gigante (Strigiformes: Tytonidae) del Pleistoceno Cubano. Boletin de la Sociedad Venezolana Ciencias Naturales 30: 129-140.
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.
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.