Tetraonidae

Japanese: Tetraonidae
Tetraonidae

...In Japan, the closely related species Bonasa bonasia (illustration) lives in Hokkaido. The family Tetraonidae includes 16 species and is considered a family closely related to the Phasianidae, of which some scholars classify as a subfamily. They are distributed in the central and northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere, with some species living in forests (Hazegrouse, Capercaillie, etc.), some species confined to high mountains (Ptarmigan), and some species living in plateaus (Sakhalin ptarmigan). ...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Tetraonidae" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…日本には他に北海道に近縁種のエゾライチョウBonasa bonasia(イラスト)が生息する。 ライチョウ科Tetraonidaeには16種が含まれ,キジ科に近縁の科とされ,学者によっては,キジ科の1亜科として分類することがある。北半球の中・北部に分布し,森林(エゾライチョウ,オオライチョウなど)に生息する種,高山に極限されて(ライチョウ)生息する種,あるいは高原地帯(カラフトライチョウ)に生息する種などがある。…

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