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WILDLIFE SPECIES: Tympanuchus phasianellus | Sharp-Tailed Grouse 



ABBREVIATION : 
TYPH

COMMON NAMES : 
   sharp-tailed grouse
   sharptail


TAXONOMY : 
The currently accepted scientific name for sharp-tailed grouse is
Tympanuchus phasianellus (Linnaeus).  It is in the family Phasianidae.
The six recognized subspecies are listed below [1]:

T. phasianellus phasianellus    northern sharp-tailed grouse
T. phasianellus kennicotti (Suckley)   northwestern sharp-taile grouse
T. phasianellus caurus (Friedmann)   Alaskan sharp-tailed grouse
T. phasianellus columbianus (Ord)   Columbian sharp-tailed grouse
T. phasianellus campestris (Ridgeway)   prairie sharp-tailed grouse
T. phasianellus jamesi (Lincoln)   plains sharp-tailed grouse  

Sharp-tailed grouse hybridize with greater prairie chickens (T. cupido)
and blue grouse (Dendragpus obscurus [43,51].


ORDER : 
Galliformes

CLASS : 
Bird

FEDERAL LEGAL STATUS : 
See OTHER STATUS

OTHER STATUS : 
The Columbian sharp-tailed grouse is federally listed as a Category 2
species (Notice of review) [52].

The sharp-tailed grouse has been on the Blue List since 1972 [50].  The
Bureau of Land Management has listed the sharp-tailed grouse as
"sensitive" in Idaho [35].  The plains sharp-tailed grouse is listed as
endangered by the state of Colorado [37].  The Columbian sharp-tailed
grouse is listed by the United States Forest Service as sensitive in
Region 4 [48], by the state of California as a subspecies of special
concern [49], and by The Nature Conservancy as critically imperiled in
Wyoming [48].


COMPILED BY AND DATE : 
Julie Tesky, September 1994


LAST REVISED BY AND DATE : 
NO-ENTRY


AUTHORSHIP AND CITATION : 
Tesky, Julie L. 1994. Tympanuchus phasianellus. In: Remainder of Citation

Related categories for Wildlife Species: Tympanuchus phasianellus | Sharp-Tailed Grouse