Lyrurus

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = Early Pliocene to recent

| image = Birkhahn.jpg

| image_caption = Black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix)

| taxon = Lyrurus

| authority = Swainson, 1832

| type_species = Tetrao tetrix (black grouse)

| type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1758

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

Lyrurus tetrix

Lyrurus mlokosiewiczi

}}

Lyrurus is a genus of birds in the grouse subfamily. They are known as black grouse because the male's plumage of both species is colored black as its base colour.

==Taxonomy==

The genus Lyrurus was introduced in 1832 by the English naturalist William Swainson with the black grouse as the type species.{{ cite book | last1=Swainson | first1=William | author1-link=William Swainson | last2=Richardson | first2=J. | author2-link=John Richardson (naturalist) | year=1831 | title=Fauna Boreali-Americana, or, The Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America | volume=Part 2. The Birds | publisher=J. Murray | location=London | page=497 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41549942}} The title page bears the year 1831 but the volume was no published until 1832. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek lura meaning "lyre" with -ouros meaning "-tailed".{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=233 }}

=Species=

The genus contains two 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 Rasmussen | date=July 2021 | title=Pheasants, partridges, francolins | work=IOC World Bird List Version 11.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/new/bow/pheasants/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=23 August 2021 }}

{{Species table |genus=Lyrurus |authority-name=Swainson |authority-year=1832 |species-count=two|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}

{{Species table/row

|name= Black grouse|binomial=Lyrurus tetrix

|image=File:Birkhahn.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Linnaeus |authority-year=1758 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= Europe (Swiss-Italian-French Alps specially) from Great Britain (but not Ireland) through Scandinavia and Estonia, eastwards through Russia and parts of Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and China

|range-image=File:Black Grouse Lyrurus tetrix distribution map.png

|range-image-size=180px

|size=

|habitat=

|hunting=

|iucn-status= LC

|population=

|direction=

|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Six subspecies |bullets=on

| L. t. baikalensis (Lorenz T., 1911)

| L. t. britannicus (Witherby & Lönnberg, 1913)

| L. t. mongolicus (Lönnberg, 1904)

| L. t. tetrix (Linnaeus, 1758)

| L. t. ussuriensis (Kohts, 1911)

| L. t. viridanus (Lorenz T., 1891)

}}

{{Species table/row

|name=Caucasian grouse |binomial=Lyrurus mlokosiewiczi

|image=File:Tetrao mlokosiewiczi 67094840.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Taczanowski |authority-year=1875 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= The Caucasus, specifically the Caucasus Mountains

|range-image=

|range-image-size=180px

|size=

|habitat=

|hunting=

|iucn-status= LC

|population=

|direction=

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}}

References

Category:Bird genera

Category:Birds of Eurasia

Category:Taxa named by William Swainson