Puerto Rican barn owl
Species of bird
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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).
| Puerto Rican barn owl Temporal range: Late Pleistocene-Holocene | |
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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 | |
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