Lagopus

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 1974P04 [=L. lagopus atavusM02]
    |         L. hyperboreus Sundevall in Gaimard 1838 (see below for synonymy)S05
    |         L. rupestris (Gmelin 1788) [=Tetrao rupestris, L. mutus var. rupestris]S05
    |           |--L. r. rupestrisS05
    |           `--L. r. reinhardti (Brehm 1823) [=Tetrao reinhardti; incl. L. groenlandicus Brehm 1855]S05
    |         L. scoticus (Latham 1789)CC10 [=Tetrao scoticusCC10, L. lagopus scoticusL81]
    |--L. leucuraJT12
    `--+--L. lagopus (Linnaeus 1758)JT12, M02 (see below for synonymy)
       |    |--L. l. lagopusL81
       |    `--L. l. rossicusL81
       `--L. muta (Montin 1781)JT12, M02 [=Tetrao mutusM02; incl. L. mutus correzensis Mourer-Chauviré 1975M02]
            |--L. m. mutaWH02
            |--L. m. helveticusWH02
            `--L. m. japonicus Clark 1907I92

Lagopus hyperboreus Sundevall in Gaimard 1838 [=L. alpina var. hyperborea, L. mutus var. hyperboreus; incl. L. hemileucurus Newton 1871]^S05

Lagopus lagopus (Linnaeus 1758)^{JT12, M02} [=Tetrao lagopus^M02; incl. T. albus Seebohm 1888^S05, Lagopus albus^S05, L. alpinus Nelson 1883^S05, L. medius Woldřich 1893^M02, L. lagopus noaillensis Mourer-Chauviré 1975^M02, L. subalpinus Palmén 1887^S05]

*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.

[S05] Schalow, H. 1905. Die Vögel der Arktis. In: Römer, F., & F. Schaudinn (eds) Fauna Arctica. Eine Zusammenstellun der arktischen Tierformen, mit besonder Berücksichtigung des Spitzbergen-Gebietes auf Grund der Ergebnisse der Deutschen Expedition in das Nördliche Eismeer im Jahre 1898 vol. 4 pp. 79–288. Gustav Fischer: Jena.

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