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Occasional hybridization reported with Willow Ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus), Rock Ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) and Black Grouse (Lyrurus tetrix). Complex taxonomy, with various attempts to lump subspecies, e.g. only four recognized: with styriaca, rhenana and schiebeli placed in rupestris; volgensis and griseonota in bonasia; kolymensis in sibirica; amurensis and yamashinai in vicinitas.

The following 12 subspecies are recognised:

• styriacus (von Jordans and Schiebel, 1944)   -  Jura Mts, Alps, Hungary, Slovakia and southern Poland.
• rhenanus (Kleinschmidt, 1917)   -  North-eastern France, Luxembourg, Belgium and western Germany.
• rupestris (Brehm, CL, 1831)   -  Southern Germany, Bohemia and Sudety Mts.
• schiebeli (Kleinschmidt, O, 1943)   -  Balkan Peninsula.
• volgensis (Buturlin, 1916)   -  Poland and Ukraine to central European Russia.
• bonasia (Linnaeus, 1758)   -  Southern Scandinavia, Finland and northern European Russia to Urals.
• griseonota Salomonsen, 1947   -  Northern Sweden.
• sibiricus (Buturlin, 1916)   -  Most of forested Siberia south to Altai and Sajan Mts, northern Mongolia and northern Amurland.
• kolymensis Buturlin, 1916   -  Extreme eastern Siberia, from northern Yakutia and Verkhoyansk Mts to Sea of Okhotsk.
• amurensis Riley, 1916   -  Southern Amurland and Little Khingan Mts south to northern Korea.
• yamashinai Momiyama, 1928   -  Sakhalin I.
• vicinitas Riley, 1915   -  Hokkaido (northern Japan).

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