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Relatives

Mimus

Related genus



 

Species in the genus Mimus

Northern MockingbirdM. polyglottosNorth America; México; Caribbean from Bahamas east to Virgin Islands
Tropical MockingbirdM. gilvus northern South America; Central America from Panamá to Isthmus of Tehuántepec, México Caribbean from Trinidad north and west to Virgin Islands
Large-billed (St. Andrew) MockingbirdM. magnirostrisIsla San Andres, Colombia
Considered to be a well differentiated subspecies of M. gilvus by AOU (1998)
   M. polyglottos, M. gilvus, and M. magnirostris appear to represent sibling species
Socorro MockingbirdM. graysoniEndemic to Isla Socorro, Revillagigedos Archipelago, México. Placed formerly in monotypic genus Mimodes but recently shown to be closely related to preceding two species, within Mimus (Barber et al. 2004).
Bahama MockingbirdM. gundlachiiBahamas Bank; islands along Cuba's north shore; southern Jamaica

Bahama Mockingbird, M. gundlachii gundlachii, San Salvador Island, Bahamas
 
Socorro Mockingbird, M. graysoni
Brown-backed MockingbirdM. dorsaliseast-central South America
White-banded MockingbirdM. triuruseast-central South America
   M. dorsalis and M. triurus appear to represent sibling species
Chalk-browed MockingbirdM. saturninussoutheastern South America
Patagonian MockingbirdM. patagonicusPatagonia
   M. saturninus and M. patagonicus have been thought to represent sibling species, but this conclusion is not supported by recent phylogenetic analysis (Arbogast et al. 2006). M. saturninus now appears to be sister to M. triurus.
Chilean MockingbirdM. thencaChile
Long-tailed Mockingbird
M. longicaudatuswestern Ecuador, including Isla de la Plata; northern and central Perú west of Andes
    Subspecies
  • M. l. longicaudatus ~ Perú
  • M. l. albogriseus ~ Mainland Ecuador
  • M. l. platensis ~ Isla de la Plata, Ecuador (endemic; largest bill)
   M. thenca and M. longicaudatus have been thought to represent sibling species, but this conclusion is not supported by recent phylogenetic analysis (Arbogast et al. 2006). M. thenca now appears to be sister to M. patagonicus.

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Closely related genus

OreoscoptesMonotypic: O. montanus, Sage ThrasherGreat Basin, USA. More closely related to Mimus than to other thrashers (Toxostoma spp.) in available cladistic and DNA-DNA hybridization analyses.

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