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The genus name is the Latin word for a game bird, probably a black grouse. [2] The black grouse was included by Linnaeus in the genus Tetrao but is now placed in the genus Lyrurus . [ 1 ] [ 3 ] The type species was designated as the western capercaillie ( Tetrao urogallus ) by George Robert Gray in 1840.
The western capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus), also known as the Eurasian capercaillie, wood grouse, heather cock, cock-of-the-woods, or simply capercaillie / ˌ k æ p ər ˈ k eɪ l (j) i /, [3] is a heavy member of the grouse family and the largest of all extant grouse species. The heaviest-known specimen, recorded in captivity, had a weight ...
The grey francolin was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae.He placed it with all the grouse like birds in the genus Tetrao and coined the binomial name Tetrao pondicerianus. [2]
The name Tetraophasis is a combination of the genus name Tetrao (the name Carl Linnaeus gave grouse in 1758), and the modern Latin word phasis, meaning "pheasant". [2] Monal-partridge are close relatives of monals and more distantly related to tragopan. They are boreal adapted species of high altitudes.
The black-bellied sandgrouse was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae.He placed it with all the other grouse-like birds in the genus Tetrao and coined the binomial name Tetrao orientalis. [2]
Tetrao cupido Linnaeus, 1758 The greater prairie-chicken or pinnated grouse ( Tympanuchus cupido ), sometimes called a boomer , [ 2 ] is a large bird in the grouse family . This North American species was once abundant, but has become extremely rare and extirpated over much of its range due to habitat loss . [ 2 ]
The naming of hybrid animals depends on the sex and species of the parents. The father giving the first half of his species' name and the mother the second half of hers. (I.e. a pizzly bear has a polar bear father and grizzly bear mother whereas a grolar bear's parents would be reversed.)
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