The Key to Scientific Names
- albotetrix
L. albus white; taetricus or tetricus gloomy < taeter offensive, horrid (cf. Gr. τετριξ tetrix, τετριγος tetrigos unidentified ground-nesting bird.
- bonasiotetrix
Portmanteau of specific names Tetrastes bonasia (Linnaeus, 1758) and Tetrao tetrix Linnaeus, 1758) (Björn Bergenholtz in litt.) (Tetrastes bonasia x Tetrao tetrix hybrid).
- lagopodotetrix
Portmanteau of specific names Lagopus lagopus (Linnaeus 1758) and Lyrurus tetrix (Linnaeus 1758) (Björn Bergenholtz in litt.) (hybrid Lagopus lagopus x Lyrurus tetrix).
- Lagopotetrix
(Phasianidae; hybrid; Lagopus x Lyrurus Ϯ Lagopotetrix dicksoni) Portmanteau of genus Lagopus Brisson 1760, grouse, and specific name Tetrao tetrix Linnaeus, 1758.
- Palaeotetrix
‡ (Phasianidae; syn. Dendragapus Ϯ Theodore's Grouse D. gilli) Gr. παλαιος palaios old, ancient; τετριξ tetrix unknown ground-dwelling bird, perhaps a grouse.
- tetrix
Gr. τετριξ tetrix, τετριγος tetrigos unidentified ground-nesting bird mentioned by Aristotle (cf. Med. L. tetrex unknown large bird, perhaps a goose); "91. TETRAO. ... Tetrix. 2. T. pedibus hirsutis, cauda bifurcata, remigibus secundariis basin versus albis. Fn. svec. 168. Tetrao s. Urogallus minor. Gesn. av. 494. Aldr. orn. l. c. 7. Will. orn. 124. t. 31. Raj. av. 53. Alb. av. I. p. 22. t. 22. Habitat in Europæ frigidæ Ericetis, Betuletis. Exæstuat in campis obmurmurans erecta cauda tumidisque superciliis, sibilo efflans; hieme sæpe nive sepelitur; ova excludens odore privatur." (Linnaeus 1758) (Lyrurus).
- Tetrix
(Phasianidae; syn. Tetrao † Great Capercaillie T. urogallus) Gr. τετριξ tetrix, τετριγος tetrigos unidentified ground-nesting bird mentioned by Aristotle; "Tetrix niger, Black Game. Tetrix sylvicola, Capercail." (F. Morris 1837) (OD per Björn Bergenholtz); "Tetrix F. O. Morris, 1837, The Naturalist (ed. N. Wood), II (9), p. 126. New name for Urogallus Scopoli, 1777." (JAJ 2021) (see Seiren).
- urogallotetrix
Specific name Tetrao urogallus Linnaeus, 1758; specific name Tetrao tetrix Linnaeus, 1758 (hybrid Tetrao urogallus x Lyrurus tetrix).
