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Genus: Gymnasio

Description

Puerto Rican Owl was shown to be more closely related to Flammulated Owl than to members of genus Megascops, but still different enough that it should stay in a separate genus. Therefore this monotypic genus.

Taxonomy

Gymnasio is a genus in the family Strigidae. The lone member used to be considered a member of Megascops.


Genus Gymnasio view • edit
G. nudipes Puerto Rican Owl

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2019. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. proposal to move Puerto Rican Owl to genus Gymnasio is found in section B9.

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