SuÁrez William, Olson Storrs L
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Zootaxa. 2020 Aug 14;4830(3):zootaxa.4830.3.4. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4830.3.4.
After reviewing the systematics and distribution of the living and fossil small West Indian taxa of Tytonidae (Tyto), we reached the following conclusions: (1) Strix tuidara J. E. Gray, 1827, type locality of Brazil, is the earliest available and correct name to be used in a binomen for New World mainland barn owls; (2) the North American mainland subspecies Tyto tuidara pratincola (Bonaparte, 1838), new combination, is resident in the Bahamas ("Tyto perlatus lucayanus" Riley, 1913, is a synonym), where it probably did not colonize until after the European introduction of Rattus Fischer, in Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti) where it became established in the 20th century, and subsequently in Puerto Rico; (3) Tyto furcata (Temminck, 1827) of Cuba, Jamaica and the Cayman Islands is a different species restricted to its insular distribution, with "T. alba niveicauda" Parkes Phillips, 1978, of the Isle of Pines (now Isla de la Juventud) as a synonym; (4) the distinct species Tyto glaucops (Kaup, 1852), now endemic to Hispaniola, once occurred in Puerto Rico, as the fossil species "T. cavatica" Wetmore, 1920, is here shown to be a synonym; (5) the smallest taxon Tyto insularis (Pelzeln, 1872) of the southern Lesser Antilles is treated as a separate species, in which the nominate subspecies T. i. insularis (St. Vincent, Grenada, and the Grenadines) differs slightly but consistently in coloration from T. i. nigrescens (Lawrence, 1878) of Dominica; (6) another barn owl, Tyto maniola, new species, of this group of small tytonids from the West Indies inhabited Cuba during part of the Quaternary, and is here named and described.
在对草鸮科（草鸮属）现存及化石记录的西印度小类群的系统分类和分布情况进行研究之后，我们得出以下结论：(1) 1827年J. E. 格雷命名的、模式产地为巴西的仓鸮（学名：Strix tuidara），是新大陆大陆仓鸮双名法中最早可用的正确名称；(2) 北美大陆亚种草鸮指名亚种（学名：Tyto tuidara pratincola，1838年波拿巴命名，新组合），栖息于巴哈马群岛（“Tyto perlatus lucayanus”，赖利，1913年，为其同义名），可能直到欧洲人将褐家鼠引入伊斯帕尼奥拉岛（多米尼加共和国和海地）后才在此定居，它于20世纪在该地立足，随后进入波多黎各；(3) 古巴、牙买加和开曼群岛的古巴草鸮（学名：Tyto furcata，1827年特明克命名）是一个局限于岛屿分布的不同物种，并将派恩斯岛（现青年岛）的“T. alba niveicauda”（帕克斯·菲利普斯，1978年）作为其同义名；(4) 现仅分布于伊斯帕尼奥拉岛的独特物种古巴暗草鸮（学名：Tyto glaucops，1852年考普命名），曾在波多黎各出现过，在此我们将化石物种“T. cavatica”（韦特莫尔，1920年）认定为其同义名；(5) 小安的列斯群岛南部最小的类群小安的列斯草鸮（学名：Tyto insularis，1872年佩尔策尔恩命名）被视为一个独立物种，其中指名亚种T. i. insularis（圣文森特岛、格林纳达岛和格林纳丁斯群岛）在体色上与多米尼克岛的T. i. nigrescens（劳伦斯，1878年）略有但稳定的差异；(6) 西印度群岛这一小群草鸮科鸟类中的另一种仓鸮，新物种马尼奥拉草鸮（学名：Tyto maniola），在第四纪的部分时期栖息于古巴，在此予以命名和描述。
