Athene cunicularia guadeloupensis (Ridgway, 1874:90)
Marie-Galante burrowing owl, Guadeloupe burrowing owl (erroneous)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Speotyto cunicularia guadeloupensis Ridgway, 1874:90 (original combination)
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: c.1890 (Marks et al., 1999)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Marie-Galante, Guadeloupe, West Indies
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: Mus. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist.
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Ridgway, Robert. (1874). In: Baird SF, Brewer TM, Ridgway R (eds) A history of North American birds; Land birds. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 3, 90.
Other references:
BirdLife International. (2012). Athene cunicularia. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 21 May 2013.
Hume, Julian Pender and Walters, Michael. (2012). Extinct Birds. AT & D Poyser.
Marks, J.S., Cannings, R.J. and Mikkola, H. (1999). Family Strigidae (Typical Owls). In Handbook of the Birds of the World Volume 5: Barn-owls to Hummingbirds (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott and J. Sargatal eds). Barcelona, Spain: Lynx Edicions.
Matthews, Thomas J. et al. (2022). Threatened and extinct island endemic birds of the world: Distribution, threats and functional diversity. Journal of Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14474
Ridgway R (1914) Birds of North and Middle America. Striges. US Nat Mus Bull 50:594–825.
Sharpe RB (1875a) Catalogue of birds of the British Museum 2: 1-314.
Weick, Friedhelm. (2006). Owls (Strigiformes): Annotated and Illustrated Checklist. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.