rock thrush

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.{{ cite journal | last=Boie | first=F. | year=1822 | title=Ueber Classification, insonderheit der europäischen Vogel | journal=Isis von Oken | volume=10–11 | at=Col. 552 | language=de | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27515507 }} In 1826 Boie introduced a different genus name, Petrocossyphus, containing a single species, Turdus saxatilis Linnaeus.{{ cite journal | last=Boie | first=Friedrich | author-link=Friedrich Boie | year=1826 | title=Generalübersicht der ornithologischen Ordnungen, Familien und Gattungen | journal=Isis von Oken | language=German | volume=19 | at=Cols 969–981 [972] | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27511178 }} 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".{{ cite journal | last=Strickland | first=Hugh Edwin | author-link=Hugh Edwin Strickland | year=1841 | title=Commentary on Mr. G.R. Gray's Genera of Birds. 1840 (continued) | journal=Annals and Magazine of Natural History; Zoology, Botany, and Geology | volume=7 | pages=26-41 [26] | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2314721 }} The type species of the genus Monticola is Turdus saxatilis Linnaeus, the common rock thrush.{{ cite book | last=Gray | first=George Robert | author-link=George Robert Gray | year=1847 | title=The Genera of Birds : comprising their generic characters, a notice of the habits of each genus, and an extensive list of species referred to their several genera | volume=1 | location=London | publisher=Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans | page=220 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40012358 }} The title page has 1849. For the publication date see {{ cite journal | last=Bruce | first=Murray D. | date=2023 | title=The Genera of Birds (1844–1849) by George Robert Gray: A review of its part publication, dates, new nominal taxa, suppressed content and other details | journal=Sherbornia | volume=8 | issue=1 | pages=1–93 [18] | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/368392529 | ref=none }}{{ cite book | last1=Mayr | first1=Ernst | last2=Paynter | first2=Raymond A. Jr. | year=1964 | title=Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 10 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=135 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14486324 }} Monticola is the Latin word for mountain-dweller or mountaineer.{{ cite web | last=Jobling | first=James A. | title=Monticola | work=The Key to Scientific Names | url=https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/key-to-scientific-names/search?q=Monticola | publisher=Cornell Lab of Ornithology | access-date=2 June 2025 }}

The genus was formerly included in the thrush family Turdidae,{{cite book | editor1-last=Dickinson | editor1-first=E.C. | year=2003 | title=The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World | edition=3rd | place=London | publisher=Christopher Helm | isbn=978-0-7136-6536-9 }} 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.{{ cite journal | last1=Voelker | first1=G. | last2=Spellman | first2=G.M. | year=2004 | title=Nuclear and mitochondrial DNA evidence of polyphyly in the avian superfamily Muscicapoidea | journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume=30 | issue=2 | pages=386–394 | doi=10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00191-X | pmid=14715230 }}{{ cite journal | last1=Sangster | first1=G. | last2=Alström | first2=P. | last3=Forsmark | first3=E. | last4=Olsson | first4=U. | year=2010 | title=Multi-locus phylogenetic analysis of Old World chats and flycatchers reveals extensive paraphyly at family, subfamily and genus level (Aves: Muscicapidae) | journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume=57 | issue=1 | pages=380–392 | doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2010.07.008 | pmid=20656044}}

The genus contains the following species:{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela C. Rasmussen | date=February 2025 | title=Chats, Old World flycatchers | work=IOC World Bird List Version 15.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/chats/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=2 June 2025}}

Monticola pongraczi (Pliocene of Beremend, Hungary) Kessler, E. 2013. Neogene songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary. – Hantkeniana, Budapest, 2013, 8: 37-149.

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• {{cite journal | last1=Outlaw | first1=R.K. | last2=Voelker | first2=G. | last3=Outlaw | first3=D.C. | year=2007 | title=Molecular systematics and historical biogeography of the Rock-thrushes (Muscicapidae: Monticola) | journal=The Auk | volume=124 | issue=2 | pages=561–577 | doi=10.1642/0004-8038(2007)124[561:MSAHBO]2.0.CO;2 | doi-access=free }}{{open access}}

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• [http://ibc.lynxeds.com/family/thrushes-turdidae Rock thrush videos] on the Internet Bird Collection

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