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Mimus is a bird genus in the family Mimidae. It contains the typical mockingbirds. In 2007, the genus Nesomimus was merged into Mimus by the American Ornithologists' Union. The genus name is Latin for "mimic".
The following species are placed here:

Brown-backed mockingbird, Mimus dorsalis
Bahama mockingbird, Mimus gundlachii
Long-tailed mockingbird, Mimus longicaudatus
Patagonian mockingbird, Mimus patagonicus
Chilean mockingbird, Mimus thenca
White-banded mockingbird, Mimus triurus
Northern mockingbird, Mimus polyglottos
Socorro mockingbird, Mimus graysoni
Tropical mockingbird, Mimus gilvus
Chalk-browed mockingbird, Mimus saturninus
The Nesomimus group includes the following species endemic to the Galápagos Islands:

Hood mockingbird, Mimus macdonaldi
Galápagos mockingbird, Mimus parvulus
Floreana mockingbird or Charles mockingbird, Mimus trifasciatus
San Cristóbal mockingbird, Mimus melanotis
The Nesomimus group is endemic to the Galápagos Islands. These mockingbirds were important in Charles Darwin's development of the theory of evolution by natural selection.
Previous to the merger between Nesomimus and Mimus scientists have proved in 1971 that both groups can produce hybrids. Robert I. Bowman and Anne Carter have studied a female Galápagos mockingbird and a male from the long-tailed mockingbird subspecies Mimus longicaudatus punensis that have interbred. They raised a hybrid offspring to adulthood.




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External links


Media related to Mimus at Wikimedia Commons

Darwin's Mockingbirds; a site about the Nesomimus group run by Professor Robert L. Curry of Villanova University.

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Ajuk-Ajuk
• Eugenia mimus
• Heliocopris mimus
• Onthophagus mimus
• Anibontes mimus
• Lepidanthrax mimus
• Alcimus mimus
• Gonarthrus mimus
• Homogenes mimus
• Pseudotaeniotes mimus
• Mimus
• Mockingbird
• Northern mockingbird
• Craugastor mimus
• Socorro mockingbird
• Mimu Maxi
• Tropical mockingbird
• Octopus mimus
• Erythrolamprus mimus
• Xyletobius mimus