Antipodes snipe

Antipodes Island snipe
Scientific classification Edit this 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
Synonyms
  • Gallinago tristrami
  • Coenocorypha meinertzhagenae

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.