Auckland snipe
| Auckland Island snipe | |
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| Auckland Island snipe with chick on Enderby Island | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Family: | Scolopacidae |
| Genus: | Coenocorypha |
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| Subspecies: | C. a. aucklandica
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| Trinomial name | |
| Coenocorypha aucklandica aucklandica (Gray, 1844)
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Native range
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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.