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
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Trinomial name | |
Coenocorypha aucklandica meinertzhagenae Rothschild, 1927
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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.