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Otus sauzieri (Mauritius owl)
Taxonomy
Strix sauzieri was named by Newton and Gadow (1893). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Mare aux Songes swamp (Sauzier collection), which is in a Holocene mire/swamp peat in Mauritius.
It was recombined as Mascarenotus sauzieri by Mourer-Chauviré et al. (1994); it was recombined as Otus sauzieri by Louchart et al. (2018).
It was recombined as Mascarenotus sauzieri by Mourer-Chauviré et al. (1994); it was recombined as Otus sauzieri by Louchart et al. (2018).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1893 | Strix sauzieri Newton and Gadow p. 286 figs. Pl 33, figs 11-18 |
| 1907 | Strix newtoni Rothschild |
| 1933 | Strix newtoni Lambrecht p. 614 |
| 1994 | Strix sauzieri Cowles p. 92 |
| 1994 | Mascarenotus sauzieri Mourer-Chauviré et al. pp. 1699, 1701 figs. 2.1-2.6 |
| 2018 | Otus sauzieri Louchart et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Otus sauzieri Newton and Gadow 1893 [Mauritius owl]
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Invalid names: Strix newtoni Rothschild 1907 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Thiollay 1994, Kurochkin and Dyke 2011, Marsh 1875 | |||||