Otus Pennant ...

• Main Authors: Rando, Juan Carlos, Pieper, Harald, Alcover, Josep Antoni, Olson, Storrs L.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Aves; Strigiformes; Strigidae; Otus; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5631912; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5631912

Genus Otus Pennant Twenty seven nearly complete bones and fragments of a small strigiform species were collected. These bones are referred to the genus Otus on the basis of the following combination of characters: The coracoid is similar in size and shape to Otus, and it differs from the coracoid of the remaining small European strigiforms in that (1) the processus procoracoideus is characteristically narrow, with sides more or less parallel (not wide and triangular as in other species), and (2) the processus acrocoracoideus is elongated (cranio-caudally) and has a caudal lamellar process directed towards the processus procoracoideus. In Athene, Asio, Strix, Bubo, Surnia, Aegolius and Glaucidium this processus is absent. The scapula of Otus displays a characteristically very wide cranial region, with the scapular body narrow, and having a distinct extension in the cranial part of the margo dorsalis scapularis; this extension is also present in Asio and Strix, although it is less developed, and is absent in ... : Published as part of Rando, Juan Carlos, Pieper, Harald, Alcover, Josep Antoni & Olson, Storrs L., 2012, A new species of extinct fossil scops owl (Aves: Strigiformes: Strigidae: Otus) from the Archipelago of Madeira (North Atlantic Ocean), pp. 29-42 in Zootaxa 3182 on page 31, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.209430 ...