Antipodes snipe
The Antipodes snipe (Coenocorypha aucklandica meinertzhagenae), also known as the Antipodes Island snipe, is an isolated subspecies of the Subantarctic snipe that is endemic to the Antipodes Islands, a subantarctic island group south of New Zealand in the Southern Ocean.
| Antipodes Island snipe | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Family: | Scolopacidae |
| Genus: | Coenocorypha |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | C. a. meinertzhagenae |
| Trinomial name | |
| Coenocorypha aucklandica meinertzhagenae Rothschild, 1927 | |
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