| Polynesian sandpiper | |
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| Prosobonia leucoptera | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Family: | Scolopacidae |
| Subfamily: | Calidrinae |
| Genus: | Prosobonia Bonaparte, 1850 |
| Type species | |
| Tringa leucoptera (Tahiti sandpiper) JF Gmelin, 1789
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| Species | |
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See text. | |
| Synonyms | |
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Aechmorhynchus Coues, 1874 | |
The Polynesian sandpipers form the genus Prosobonia. They are small wading birds confined to remote Pacific islands of French Polynesia. Only one species is now extant, and it is rare and little known. This bird is sometimes separated in the genus Aechmorhynchus, restricting the genus to the extinct southern forms.