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The Galápagos mockingbird (''Mimus parvulus'') is a species of bird in the Mimidae family. It is endemic to the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. ==Systematics== The Galápagos mockingbird is one of four mockingbird species endemic to the Galápagos Islands. These four are all closely related, and DNA evidence shows they likely all descended from an ancestor species which reached the islands in a single colonization event. When John Gould first described the species in 1837, based on specimens brought back from the islands by Charles Darwin, he named it ''Orpheus parvulus''. However, because of the rules of binomial nomenclature, ''Orpheus'' was declared a junior synonym, and in 1841, George Robert Gray moved all of the ''Orpheus'' mockingbirds to the older genus ''Mimus''. In 1890, Robert Ridgway created the genus ''Nesomimus'' for the mockingbirds found on the Galápagos Islands, and most taxonomists adopted the change. Recent DNA studies, however, show that the ''Nesomimus'' mockingbirds fall within the traditional ''Mimus'' genus, making the latter paraphyletic, so some taxonomists have moved them back into ''Mimus''.〔 There are six subspecies, each endemic to a particular island or islands:〔 * ''M. p. barringtoni'' is found on Santa Fé. * ''M. p. bauri'' is found on Genovesa. * ''M. p. hulli'' is found on Darwin. * ''M. p. parvulus'' is found on Santa Cruz, North Seymour, Daphne Major, Isabela and Fernandina. * ''M. p. personatus'' is found on Pinta, Marchena, Rábida and Santiago. * ''M. p. wenmani'' is found on Wolf. The genus name ''Mimus'' is a Latin word meaning "mimic",〔Jobling, p. 255.〕 while the species name ''parvulus'' is a Latin word meaning "very small".〔Jobling, p. 293.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Galápagos mockingbird」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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