Species profile
Principe Scops-owl
Otus bikegila
Quick answer
Material. Holotype. MHNC-UP-AVE 7000: Sao Tome and Principe • ♀, adult, moulting; Principe Island, South Principe, ca. 500 m NW of Ribeira Porco river mouth (Fig. 1); 1 ° 33.03 ' N, 7 ° 22.29 ' E; ca. 100 m a. s. l.; 29 May 2017; HP and Ceciliano do Bom Jesus leg.; skin prepared by Vanya Rohwer, skeleton prepared by Vanya Rohwer and Daniele Cataldo; left wing removed for wing mounting, all bones with the exception of the left tarso-metatarsus (tarsus) removed for skeleton preparation; Audio-recorded by HP (Xeno-canto audio: XC 619445, XC 619447; GenBank: 12 S OM 978880, 16 S OM 978895, ATP 6 OM 913485, COI, OM 937282; CYTB, OM 937307; ND 2, OM 937351; ND 3, ON 016156; KIAA 1239, OM 937319; MYO 2, OM 937336; RAG 1, ON 016107; SACS, ON 016118; TGFB 2, ON 016136 and TTN, ON 016141; Gulf of Guinea database of MM: P 7 - 04.
- Scientific name
- Otus bikegila
- Family
- Strigidae
- Order
- Strigiformes
- Genus
- Otus
- Conservation status
- Critically Endangered
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