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Puerto Rican barn owl

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Species of bird

Puerto Rican barn owl
Temporal range: Late Pleistocene-Holocene
Tibiotarsus and tarsometatarsus
Conservation status
Extinct
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Strigiformes
Family: Tytonidae
Genus: Tyto
Species: †T. cavatica
Binomial name
†Tyto cavatica
Wetmore, 1920

The Puerto Rican barn owl (Tyto cavatica) is an extinct species of barn owl that inhabited the island of Puerto Rico in the Caribbean. It is sometimes considered to be a subspecies of the ashy-faced owl (Tyto glaucops).

References

  1. ^ Wetmore, Alexander (1920). "Five New Species of Birds from Cave Deposits in Porto Rico". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 33: 77–82.
Taxon identifiers
Tyto cavatica
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