page_title: Austral snipe
section_title: Species and subspecies
hierarchical_section_title: Austral snipe / Taxonomy and range / Species and subspecies
caption_attribution_description: English: A banded adult Snares snipe, from the first translocation from the Snares Islands to Codfish Island / Whenua Hou. Photo: Jake Osborne
context_page_description: The austral snipes, also known as the New Zealand snipes or tutukiwi, are a genus, Coenocorypha, of tiny birds in the sandpiper family, which are now only found on New Zealand's outlying islands. There are currently three living species and six known extinct species, with the Subantarctic snipe having three subspecies, including the Campbell Island snipe discovered as recently as 1997. The genus was once distributed from Fiji, New Caledonia and Norfolk Island, across New Zealand and southwards into New Zealand's subantarctic islands, but predation by introduced species, especially rats, has drastically reduced their range.
context_section_description: Chatham snipe C. pusilla (Buller, 1869) – Chatham Islands
  Subantarctic snipe C. aucklandica (G.R.Gray, 1845)
  Auckland snipe C. a. aucklandica (G.R.Gray, 1845) – Auckland Islands
  Antipodes snipe C. a. meinertzhagenae Rothschild, 1927 – Antipodes Islands
  Campbell snipe C. a. perseverance Miskelly & Baker, 2010 – Campbell Island
  Snares snipe C. huegeli (Tristram, 1893) – Snares Islands
  † North Island snipe C. barrierensis Oliver, 1955, also known as the Little Barrier Snipe
  † South Island snipe C. iredalei Rothschild, 1921, also known as the Stewart Island Snipe
  † Forbes's snipe C. chathamica (Forbes, 1893) – Chatham Islands
  † Viti Levu snipe C. miratropica Worthy, 2003 – Fiji
  † New Caledonian snipe Coenocorypha neocaledonica Worthy et al., 2013 – New Caledonia
  † Norfolk snipe Coenocorypha sp. – Norfolk Island
caption: A banded adult Snares snipe, from the first translocation from the Snares Islands to Codfish Island / Whenua Hou.
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