Puerto Rican barn owl
Appearance
Puerto Rican barn owl Temporal range: Late Pleistocene-Holocene
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Tibiotarsus and tarsometatarsus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Strigiformes |
Family: | Tytonidae |
Genus: | Tyto |
Species: | †T. cavatica
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Binomial name | |
†Tyto cavatica |
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 (Tyto glaucops).