Auckland snipe

Auckland Island snipe
Coenocorypha aucklandica by Hullmandel
Scientific classification Edit this 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)
Synonyms
  • Gallinago aucklandica Gray 1845
  • Scolopax holmesii Peale, 1848
  • Scolopax auclandica
  • Gallinago tristrami Rothschild 1893 (in error)

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.