Tyto cravesae in Suarez & Olson 2015
| Main Author: | Suárez, William |
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| Format: | info publication-taxonomictreatment |
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, 2020
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/3856839 |
Daftar Isi:
- † Tyto cravesae Suárez & Olson, 2015 Craves’s Giant Barn Owl; Lechuza Gigante de Craves (Figure 12: A–B) Tyto cravesae Suárez & Olson, 2015, Zootaxa 4020 (3), p. 545. Referred material. San Felipe I: Distal end of the left tarsometatarsus, MNHNCu 75.4801. Description. The specimen MNHNCu 75.4801 has been compared and described by Suárez & Olson (2015), where Tyto noeli Arredondo, 1972, is smaller, but T. pollens Wetmore, 1937, much larger. See additional comparisons in the original description of T. cravesae in Suárez & Olson (2015). Measurements (Tyto noeli in parentheses, after Suárez & Olson 2015: table 2). — Distal width: 18.1 (14.4–17.3 [15.7] 12). Comments. The distal end of the tarsometatarsus that represents this large barn owl in Las Breas de San Felipe (Fig. 12 A–B) was formerly recorded as Tyto sp. (Iturralde-Vinent et al. 2000: table 2), and subsequently designated as the paratype of T. cravesae (see Suárez & Olson 2015: 547). The assessment that T. cravesae was the rarest of the Cuban large barn owls (Orihuela 2019:62) and that in Cuba existed four large tytonids with marked anatomical adaptations for terrestrial locomotion (Orihuela 2019: 57), is wrong (see Suárez & Olson 2015: 533, 539–540).
- Published as part of Suárez, William, 2020, The fossil avifauna of the tar seeps Las Breas de San Felipe, Matanzas, Cuba, pp. 1-53 in Zootaxa 4780 (1) on pages 30-31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4780.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3856493