Puerto Rican barn owl
Puerto Rican barn owl | |
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Tibiotarsus and tarsometatarsus | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Strigiformes |
Family: | Tytonidae |
Genus: | Tyto |
Species: | T. cavatica |
Binomial name | |
Tyto cavatica Wetmore, 1920[1] | |
The Puerto Rican barn owl (Tyto cavatica) is an extinct species of barn owl that inhabited the island of Puerto Rico in the Caribbean.[1] It is sometimes considered to be a subspecies of the ashy-faced owl, and may have survived until 1912.
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