Species profile
Chickcharney
Tyto pollens
Quick answer
Holotype. Left femur MCZ 2262. Collected by Vivienne Knowles in 1937. Material examined. Hendry Cave, Royal Island, Eleuthera, Bahamas. — Coracoid: incomplete right (USNM 615825). Carpometacarpus: nearly complete right (USNM 615826). Tarsometatarsus: incomplete left (USNM 615827, lacking fragments of midshaft). Banana Hole, New Providence, Bahamas. — Femur: proximal right (UF 41807). Tibiotarsus: distal half of left (UF 41804). Tarsometatarsus: complete left (UF 3196), incomplete left (UF 41808, lacking proximal end and trochlea for digit IV). Cueva de Bellamar, Municipality of Matanzas, Matanzas Province, Cuba. — Tarsometatarsus: distal half of left (DPUH 1252, holotype of T. riveroi), proximal half of right (CZACC unnumbered), proximal end of right (OA 3215). There also exist specimens from Andros, Bahamas, in the Florida Museum of Natural History (D. W. Steadman, pers. comm.).
- Scientific name
- Tyto pollens
- Family
- Tytonidae
- Order
- Strigiformes
- Genus
- Tyto
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