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• Domain: Eukaryota () - Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
  • Kingdom: Animalia () - C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
    • Subkingdom: Bilateria () - (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
      • Branch: Deuterostomia () - Grobben, 1908
        • Infrakingdom: Chordonia () - (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
          • Phylum: Chordata () - Bateson, 1885 - Chordates
            • Subphylum: Vertebrata () - Cuvier, 1812
              • Infraphylum: Gnathostomata () - auct. - Jawed Vertebrates
                • Superclass: Tetrapoda () - Goodrich, 1930
                  • Class: Aves () - Linnaeus, 1758
                    • Subclass: Avialae () - Gauthier, 1986
                      • Infraclass: Aves () - (C. Linnaeus, 1758)
                        • Cohort: Neognathae () - Pycraft, 1900
                          • Superorder: Passerimorphae () - Sibley et al., 1988
                            • Order: Passeriformes () - C. Linnaeus, 1758
                              • Suborder: Passeres () - (C. Linnaeus, 1758) C. Linnaeus, 1766
                                • Superfamily: Muscicapoidea ()
                                  • Family: Mimidae ()
                                    • Tribe: Mimini ()
                                      • Genus: Mimus () - Boie, 1826
                                        • Specific name: gundlachii - Cabanis 1855
                                          • Form: ;
                                          Name Status: Accepted Name .
                                          
                                          Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001

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                                          Northern Mockingbird

                                          Members of the genus Mimus

                                          ZipcodeZoo has pages for 20 species and subspecies in this genus:

                                          M. dorsalis (Brown-Backed Mockingbird) · M. gilvus (Graceful Mockingbird) · M. gilvus antelius (Blue-Gray Mockingbird) · M. gilvus gilvus (Tropical Mockingbird) · M. graysoni (Socorro Mockingbird) · M. gundlachii (Spanish Nightingale) · M. gundlachii gundlachii (Spanish Nightingale) · M. longicaudatus (Long-Tailed Mockingbird) · M. longicaudatus longicaudatus (Long-Tailed Mockingbird) · M. macdonaldi (Espanola Mockingbird) · M. melanotis (San Cristobal Mockingbird) · M. parvulus (Galapagos Mockingbird) · M. patagonicus (Patagonian Mockingbird) · M. polyglottos (Jamaican Mockingbird) · M. polyglottos leucopterus (Northern Mockingbird) · M. polyglottos polyglottos (Northern Mockingbird) · M. saturninus (Chalk-Browned Mockingbird) · M. thenca (Chilean Mocking-Bird) · M. trifasciatus (Charles Mockingbird) · M. triurus (White-Banded Mockingbird)

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                                          Further Reading

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                                          • A manual of North American birds. By Robert Ridgway. Illustrated by 464 outline drawings of the generic characters. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1887. url p. 542.
                                          • A manual of North American birds. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1900. url p. 542.
                                          • Annals of the Carnegie Museum. [Pittsburgh]: Published by authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901- url p. 479.
                                          • Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 224, p. 241, p. 242, p. 243, p. 244, p. 889.
                                          • Bulletin from the laboratories of natural history of the State University of Iowa. Iowa City, Iowa: The University, 1888-[1918]. url p. 245.
                                          • Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories / Department of the Interior. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1874- url p. 270.
                                          • Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. by Charles E. Hellmayr. 13 1934 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1934. url p. 311.
                                          • Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 344.
                                          • Check-list of North American birds: the species of birds of North America from the Arctic through Panama, including the West Indies and Hawaiian Islands / prepared by the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Orni Lawrence, Kan.: American Ornithologists' Union, 1983. url p. 569, p. 807.
                                          • Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 445.
                                          • Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 405, p. 456, p. 98.
                                          • Journal of morphology. Boston: Ginn & Co., [1887-1924] url p. 282.
                                          • Narrative and preliminary report of Bahama expedition, by C.C. Nutting. Iowa City, Iowa, By authority of the Regents, 1895 url p. 245.
                                          • Second instalment of American ornithological bibliography. Washington[Govt. Print. Office]1879. url .
                                          • The Auk. Washington, D.C.: American Ornithologists' Union, etc., 1884- url p. 289, p. 416.

                                          Notes

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                                          Contributors

                                          • BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
                                          • BirdLife International 2009. Mimus gundlachii. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 02February2012.
                                          • Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
                                          • Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 9, 2012.
                                          • Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 04, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
                                          • IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
                                          • Parker III, T.A., D.F. Stotz, and J.W. Fitzpatrick, "Ecological and Distributional Databases for Neotropical Birds," in Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation, by D.F. Stotz, T.A. Parker III, J.W. Fitzpatrick, and D.K. Moskovits (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). ISBN 0-226-64676-9.
                                          • Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
                                          • Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

                                          Data Sources

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                                          • Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
                                          • Avian Knowledge Network: Project FeederWatch

                                          Identifiers

                                          • Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1
                                          • Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-178623
                                          • Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13740505
                                          • Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 178623
                                          • IUCN ID: 223827
                                          • Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 129908