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Mascarene owls

Temporal range: Holocene

Mascarenotus sauzieri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Strigiformes
Family: Strigidae
Genus: Otus
Species

Otus grucheti
Otus murivorus
Otus sauzieri

Synonyms

Mascarenotus Mourer-Chauviré Bour Moutou & Ribes, 1994

The Mascarene owls, also known as Mascarene scops owlsorlizard owls, are a group of owls formerly classified in their own genus Mascarenotus, but now thought to represent a polyphyletic grouping within the genus Otus.[1] They were restricted to the Mascarene Islands in the Indian Ocean. All three species, the Réunion scops owl, Mauritius scops owl, and Rodrigues scops owl, are now extinct.[2]

Recent genetic studies indicate that the three species in the genus actually belong in the genus Otus, which contains the typical scops owls. They are likely descended from the lineage of the Oriental scops owl (O. sunia), and share common ancestry with the scops owls found in Madagascar and the Comoros. The Mascarenotus grouping was found to be non-monophyletic, with the species having evolved the same morphology in parallel evolution, with the Rodrigues owl forming an outgroup to the clade containing the Mauritius owl, the rainforest scops owl and the Seychelles scops owl.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "IOC World Bird List 11.1". IOC World Bird List Datasets. doi:10.14344/ioc.ml.11.1. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
  • ^ Turvey, Sam (2009). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. p. 93. ISBN 978-0-19-953509-5.
  • ^ Louchart, Antoine; Bastian, Fabiola; Baptista, Marilia; Guarino-Vignon, Perle; Hume, Julian P.; Jacot-des-Combes, Cécile; Mourer-Chauviré, Cécile; Hänni, Catherine; Ollivier, Morgane (2018-10-11). "Ancient DNA reveals the origins, colonization histories, and evolutionary pathways of two recently extinct species of giant scops owl from Mauritius and Rodrigues Islands (Mascarene Islands, south-western Indian Ocean)". Journal of Biogeography. 45 (12): 2678–2689. doi:10.1111/jbi.13450. ISSN 0305-0270.

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