Galapagos Mockingbird
Galapagos Mockingbird
Here the details of the Galapagos Mockingbird named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Orpheus parvulus Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt5 no.50 p.27
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Mimidae / Mimus
Taxonomy Code: galmoc1
Type Locality: the Galapagos [type from Albemarle Island].
Author: Gould
Publish Year: 1837
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MIMUS
(Mimidae; Ϯ Northern Mockingbird M. polyglottos) L. mimus mimic < Gr. μιμος mimos mimic; "Hernandez justly calls it the queen of all singing birds. The Indians, by way of eminence or admiration, call it cencontlatolly, or four hundred tongues; and we call it (though not by so elevated a name, yet very properly) the mock-bird, from its wonderful mocking and imitating the notes of all birds, from the humming-bird to the eagle" (Catesby 1731); "LE GRAND MOQUEUR ... MIMUS MAJOR ... il chante très-bien, & imite parfaitement le chant de tous les Oiseaux" (Brisson 1760): based on "Mimus" of Charleton 1668, "Mock-bird" of Catesby 1731, and other references; "Mimus Briss. Turdus polyglottus Lin. enl. 645. u.v.a." (Boie 1826); "Mimus Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, p. 972. Type, by monotypy, Turdus polyglottos Linnaeus." (Davis & Miller in Peters 1960, IX, 442).
Var. Mimetes, Minus, Memus, Nemus.
Synon. Leucomimus, Mimodes, Nesomimus, Orpheus, Skotiomimus.
mimus
L. mimus mimic < Gr. μιμος mimos mimic.
parvula / parvulum / parvulus
L. parvulus very small < dim. parvus small.
SUBSPECIES
Galapagos Mockingbird (parvulus)
SCI Name: Mimus parvulus parvulus
parvula / parvulum / parvulus
L. parvulus very small < dim. parvus small.
Galapagos Mockingbird (barringtoni)
SCI Name: Mimus parvulus barringtoni
barringtonensis / barringtoni
Barrington I. (= Santa Fe I.), Galápagos Is.
Galapagos Mockingbird (personatus)
SCI Name: Mimus parvulus personatus
personata / personatus
L. personatus masked < persona mask.
● ex “Perroquet Geoffroy” of Levaillant 1805 (syn. Geoffroyus geoffroyi).
● ex “Chouette à Masque Noir” of Levaillant 1799, pl. 44 (syn. Pulsatrix perspicillata).
Galapagos Mockingbird (wenmani)
SCI Name: Mimus parvulus wenmani
wenmani
Wenman I. (= Wolf I.), Galápagos Is.
Galapagos Mockingbird (hulli)
SCI Name: Mimus parvulus hulli
hulli
● Arthur Francis Basset Hull (1862-1945) Australian barrister, ornithologist, philatelist (syn. Ardenna tenuirostris).
● Galen Dorens Hull (1865-1909) US taxidermist, geologist, collector on Galápagos Is. 1897-1898 (subsp. Mimus parvulus).
Galapagos Mockingbird (bauri)
SCI Name: Mimus parvulus bauri
bauri
Dr George Hermann Carl Ludwig Baur (1859-1898) German osteologist, herpetologist, collector in the Galápagos Is. 1891 (syn. Geospiza fortis, subsp. Mimus parvulus).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)