Tyto pollens Wetmore 1937 (Bahama barn owl)

Aves - Strigiformes - Tytonidae

Synonym: Tyto riveroi Arredondo 1972

Full reference: A. Wetmore. 1937. Bird remains from cave deposits on Great Exuma Island in the Bahamas. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 80:427-441

Belongs to Tyto according to J. A. Oswald and D. W. Steadman 2018

See also Brodkorb 1959, Olson and Hilgartner 1982, Suárez and Olson 2015, Wetmore 1937 and Wetmore 1956

Sister taxa: Tyto alba, Tyto balearica, Tyto cavatica, Tyto cravesae, Tyto gigantea, Tyto glaucops, Tyto letocarti, Tyto mourerchauvireae, Tyto noeli, Tyto novaehollandiae, Tyto ostologa, Tyto perlata

Type specimens:

  • Tyto pollens: MCZ 2262, a set of limb elements (left femur). Its type locality is Upper Pasture Cave, Little Exuma, which is in a Pleistocene cave limestone in the Bahamas.
  • Tyto riveroi:

Ecology: volant carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of the Bahamas (4 collections)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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