Rock thrush

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Rock thrushes
File:Monticola brevipes, Namibia 1.jpg
Male short-toed rock thrush (Monticola brevipes)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Muscicapidae
Genus: Monticola
F. Boie, 1822
Type species
Turdus saxatilis
Linnaeus, 1766
Species

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Synonyms
  • Pseudocossyphus F Boie, 1826

The rock thrushes, Monticola, are a genus of chats, medium-sized mostly insectivorous or omnivorous songbirds. All are Old World birds, and most are associated with mountainous regions.

Taxonomy

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The genus Monticola was erected by the German naturalist Friedrich Boie in 1822. Boie listed two species, saxatilis and cyanus but did not designate the type species.[1] In 1826 Boie introduced a different genus name, Petrocossyphus, containing a single species, Turdus saxatilis Linnaeus.[2] This new genus name was not accepted by other ornithologists as according to Hugh Edwin Strickland: "The former name ought therefore to stand, as authors ought no more to alter their own generic names when once published than those of others".[3] The type species of the genus Monticola is Turdus saxatilis Linnaeus, the common rock thrush.[4][5] Monticola is the Latin word for mountain-dweller or mountaineer.[6]

The genus was formerly included in the thrush family Turdidae,[7] but molecular phylogenetic studies published in 2004 and 2010 showed that the species are more closely related to members of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.[8][9]

The genus contains the following species:[10]

Image Common name Scientific name Distribution
File:Blue-capped rock thrush (Monticola cinclorhyncha) 037.jpg Blue-capped rock thrush Monticola cinclorhyncha Himalayas; winters to western and eastern Ghats
File:4G4A2289.jpg White-throated rock thrush Monticola gularis Manchuria
File:Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush Male at Almora DSCN8228 11.jpg Chestnut-bellied rock thrush Monticola rufiventris Himalayas, Patkai and southern China
File:Monticola brevipes.jpg Short-toed rock thrush Monticola brevipes arid areas of southwestern Angola and southern Africa
File:Monticola explorator -Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa -male-8.jpg Sentinel rock thrush Monticola explorator southern Africa
File:Amber mountain rock thrush (Monticola sharpei erythronotus) male 2.jpg Amber Mountain rock thrush Monticola erythronotus Amber Mountain, Madagascar
File:Forest Rock-Thrush (Monticola sharpei), Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar.jpg Forest rock thrush Monticola sharpei Madagascar
File:Benson's rock thrush (Monticola sharpei bensoni).jpg Benson's rock thrush Monticola sharpei bensoni southern-central Madagascar
File:Littoral Rock Thrush, Ambola, Madagascar 2.jpg Littoral rock thrush Monticola imerina southern coastal Madagascar
File:Monticola rufocinereus.jpg Little rock thrush Monticola rufocinereus eastern Afromontane
File:Codirossone 1-Passo dello Spluga (SO).png Common rock thrush Monticola saxatilis temperate rocky regions of Palearctic; winters to Africa
File:Blue Rock Thrush (Monticola solitarius) (27649993912).jpg Blue rock thrush Monticola solitarius temperate and elevated areas of Palearctic;
winters to Africa, Arabia and Indomalaya
File:Monticola rupestris -Marakele National Park, South Africa -male-8 (1).jpg Cape rock thrush Monticola rupestris southern Africa
File:Miombo Rock-Thrush, Kakanda, DRC (5812572406).jpg Miombo rock thrush Monticola angolensis Miombo woodlands
File:Myrmecocichla semirufa -Ethiopia-8 (cropped).jpg White-winged cliff chat Monticola semirufus Ethiopian Highlands

Fossil record

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Monticola pongraczi (Pliocene of Beremend, Hungary) [11]

References

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Further reading

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