Lagopus

Willow grouse Lagopus lagopus, from the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

Belongs within: Tetraoninae.

Lagopus, the ptarmigans, is a genus of grouse found in boreal regions of Eurasia and North America, species of which change colour between grey or brown plumage in summer and largely white plumage in winter.

<==Lagopus Brisson 1760 [Lagopodinae] M02
    |  i. s.: L. atavus Janossy 1974 P04 [=L. lagopus atavus M02]
    |         L. scoticus (Latham 1789) CC10 [=Tetrao scoticus CC10, L. lagopus scoticus L81]
    |--L. leucura JT12
    `--+--L. lagopus (Linnaeus 1758) JT12, M02 (see below for synonymy)
       |    |--L. l. lagopus L81
       |    `--L. l. rossicus L81
       `--L. muta (Montin 1781) JT12, M02 [=Tetrao mutus M02; incl. L. mutus correzensis Mourer-Chauviré 1975 M02]
            |--L. m. muta WH02
            |--L. m. helveticus WH02
            `--L. m. japonicus Clark 1907 I92

Lagopus lagopus (Linnaeus 1758) JT12, M02 [=Tetrao lagopus M02; incl. L. medius Woldřich 1893 M02, L. lagopus noaillensis Mourer-Chauviré 1975 M02]

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[CC10] Checklist Committee (OSNZ). 2010. Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica, 4^th ed. Ornithological Society of New Zealand and Te Papa Press: Wellington.

[I92] Iwahashi, J. (ed.) 1992. Reddo Deeta Animaruzu: a pictorial of Japanese fauna facing extinction. JICC: Tokyo.

[JT12] Jetz, W., G. H. Thomas, J. B. Joy, K. Hartmann & A. Ø. Mooers. 2012. The global diversity of birds in space and time. Nature 491: 444–448.

[L81] Long, J. L. 1981. Introduced Birds of the World: The worldwide history, distribution and influence of birds introduced to new environments. Reed: Sydney.

[M02] Mlíkovský, J. 2002. Cenozoic Birds of the World. Part 1: Europe. Ninox Press: Praha.

[P04] Popov, V. V. 2004. Pliocene small mammals (Mammalia, Lipotyphla, Chiroptera, Lagomorpha, Rodentia) from Muselievo (north Bulgaria). Geodiversitas 26 (3): 403–491.

[WH02] Worthy, T. H., & R. N. Holdaway. 2002. The Lost World of the Moa: Prehistoric life of New Zealand. Indiana University Press: Bloomington (Indiana).