Auckland snipe
The Auckland snipe (Coenocorypha aucklandica aucklandica), also known as the Auckland Island snipe, is a small bird in the sandpiper family. It is the isolated nominate subspecies of the subantarctic snipe that is endemic to the Auckland Islands, a subantarctic island group south of New Zealand in the Southern Ocean.
| Auckland Island snipe | |
|---|---|
| Coenocorypha aucklandica by Hullmandel | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Family: | Scolopacidae |
| Genus: | Coenocorypha |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | C. a. aucklandica |
| Trinomial name | |
| Coenocorypha aucklandica aucklandica (Gray, 1844) | |
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