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A new species of scops-owl (Aves, Strigiformes, Strigidae, Otus) from Príncipe Island (Gulf of Guinea, Africa) and novel insights into the systematic affinities within Otus
| datacite.subject.fos | Ciências Naturais::Ciências da Terra e do Ambiente | |
| datacite.subject.sdg | 03:Saúde de Qualidade | |
| datacite.subject.sdg | 12:Produção e Consumo Sustentáveis | |
| datacite.subject.sdg | 13:Ação Climática | |
| dc.contributor.author | Melo, Martim | |
| dc.contributor.author | Freitas, Bárbara | |
| dc.contributor.author | Verbelen, Philippe | |
| dc.contributor.author | da Costa, Sátiro R. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pereira, Hugo | |
| dc.contributor.author | Fuchs, Jérôme | |
| dc.contributor.author | Sangster, George | |
| dc.contributor.author | Correia, Marco N. | |
| dc.contributor.author | de Lima, Ricardo F. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Crottini, Angelica | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-20T14:38:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-20T14:38:10Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.description.abstract | A new species of scops-owl (Aves, Strigiformes, Strigidae, Otus) is described from Príncipe Island, São Tomé and Príncipe (Gulf of Guinea, Africa). This species was discovered for science in 2016, although suspicions of its occurrence gained traction from 1998, and testimonies from local people suggesting its existence could be traced back to 1928. Morphometrics, plumage colour and pattern, vocalisations, and molecular evidence all support the species status of the scops-owl from Príncipe, which is described here as Otus bikegila sp. nov. Phylogenetic analyses suggest that this species descended from the first colonisation of the Gulf of Guinea islands, being sister to the clade including the mainland African Scops-Owl O. senegalensis, and the island endemics Sao Tome Scops-Owl O. hartlaubi and Pemba Scops-Owl O. pembaensis. The most diagnostic trait in the field is its unique call which, curiously, is most similar to a distantly related Otus species, the Sokoke Scops-Owl O. ireneae. The new species occurs at low elevations of the old-growth native forest of Príncipe, currently restricted to the south of the island but fully included within Príncipe Obô Natural Park. Otus bikegila sp. nov. takes the number of single-island endemic bird species of Príncipe to eight, further highlighting the unusually high level of bird endemism for an island of only 139 km2. | eng |
| dc.description.abstract | Descrevemos uma nova espécie de mocho-de-orelhas ou kitóli (Strigiformes: Strigidae: Otus) da Ilha do Príncipe, São Tomé e Príncipe (Golfo da Guiné, África). Esta espécie foi descoberta para a ciência apenas em 2016, embora suspeitas da sua existência tenham ganho força a partir de 1998, e testemunhos de habitantes locais sobre a sua ocorrência já estarem documentados em 1928. A morfometria, a cor e padrão da plumagem, as vocalizações e dados moleculares demonstram que esta população de mocho no Príncipe é uma espécie nova, que foi batizada de mocho-do-príncipe (lista mundial) ou kitóli-do-príncipe (nome nacional), Otus bikegila sp. nov. As análises filogenéticas indicam que esta espécie descende da primeira colonização das ilhas do Golfo da Guiné, sendo irmã do clado que inclui o mocho-d’orelhas-africano O. senegalensis, do continente, o mocho-de-são-tomé (ou kitóli-de-são-tomé) O. hartlaubi e o mocho-de-pemba O. pembaensis, ambos endémicos das ilhas que lhes dão o nome. No campo, a característica mais diagnóstica é o seu canto único que, curiosamente, é mais parecido com o da espécie de Otus mais afastada, o mocho-de-sokoke O. ireneae. A nova espécie ocorre nas zonas baixas da floresta nativa do Príncipe, atualmente restrita ao sul da ilha, mas totalmente inserida no Parque Natural do Obô do Príncipe. Otus bikegila sp. nov. eleva o número de espécies de aves endémicas restritas ao Príncipe para oito, sublinhando ainda mais o nível extremamente elevado de aves endémicas para uma ilha de apenas 139 km2. | por |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This project was supported by Forever Príncipe Conservation Alliance (from Africa’s Eden to MM and BF) with additional funding from National Geographic Society (Early career grant - EC-364C-18 to BF), and was developed in collaboration with the Príncipe Obô Natural Park and Fundação Príncipe, which provided key logistic support for fieldwork. This work benefited from the use of the Portuguese Infrastructure of Scientific Collections (PRISC.pt). The Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) supported the post-doc grant FCT/MCTES - SFRH/BPD/100614/2014 to MM, the PhD grant (2020.04569.BD) to BF, the Investigador FCT (IF/00209/2014) and 2020.00823.CEECIND/CP1601/CT0003 research contracts to AC, and provided structural funding to CIBIO (UIDB/50027/2021) and cE3c (UID/00329/2021). GS was supported by a postdoctoral grant from the Swedish Research Council (grant 2015- 06455). This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement nº 854248. Fieldwork in Príncipe Obô Natural Park, collection of the specimen and samples were authorised by Arlindo Carvalho, Director of the Department of the Environment of São Tomé and Príncipe, Daniel Ramos, Director of the Príncipe Obô Natural Park and Plácida Lopes, Director of the Príncipe Biosphere Reserve. CITES export permit nº 18ST0015; CITES import permit nº 20STP. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Melo M, Freitas B, Verbelen P, da Costa SR, Pereira H, Fuchs J, Sangster G, Correia MN, de Lima RF, Crottini A (2022) A new species of scops-owl (Aves, Strigiformes, Strigidae, Otus) from Príncipe Island (Gulf of Guinea, Africa) and novel insights into the systematic affinities within Otus. ZooKeys 1126: 1–54. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1126.87635 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1126.87635 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/16623 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | |
| dc.relation.hasversion | https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/87635/ | |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | Biodiversity | |
| dc.subject | Endemism | |
| dc.subject | Exploration | |
| dc.subject | Gulf of Guinea | |
| dc.subject | Integrative taxonomy | |
| dc.subject | Otus bikegila sp. nov. | |
| dc.subject | Principe Scops-Owl | |
| dc.subject | Systematics | |
| dc.subject | Biodiversidade | |
| dc.subject | Endemismo | |
| dc.subject | Exploração | |
| dc.subject | Golfo da Guiné | |
| dc.subject | Kitóli-do-príncipe | |
| dc.subject | Mocho-do-príncipe | |
| dc.subject | Sistemática | |
| dc.subject | Taxonomia integrada | |
| dc.title | A new species of scops-owl (Aves, Strigiformes, Strigidae, Otus) from Príncipe Island (Gulf of Guinea, Africa) and novel insights into the systematic affinities within Otus | eng |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 54 | |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 1 | |
| oaire.version | http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85 | |
| person.affiliation.name | LIDA / ESAD.CR | |
| person.familyName | Nunes Correia | |
| person.givenName | Marco Paulo | |
| person.identifier.ciencia-id | AF12-A3FD-95D5 | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-0103-7580 | |
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