Snares Island Snipe / Coenocorypha huegeli
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Snares Island Snipe
SCI Name:
Protonym: Gallinago huegeli Bull.Br.Orn.Club 1 p.47
Taxonomy: Charadriiformes / Scolopacidae / Coenocorypha
Taxonomy Code: snisni1
Type Locality: Snares Islands.
Author: Tristram
Publish Year: 1893
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
COENOCORYPHA
(Scolopacidae; Ϯ Auckland Snipe C. aucklandica) Gr. κοινωσις koinōsis mingling < κοινοω koinoō to share; κορυφη koruphē crown of the head; "Top of the head rufous, mixed with dark brown, with a narrow fulvous line down the middle" (G. Gray 1845); "CŒNOCORYPHA, G. R. Gr. 1854. (Gallinago Aucklandicus, G. R. Gr.)" (G. Gray 1855); "Cœnocorypha Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, before April 18th, 1855, p. 119. Type (by original designation): Gallinago aucklandica Gray." (Mathews, 1927, Syst. Av. Austral., I, p. 180).
Synon. Holmesia.
huegeli / huegelii
● Anatole Andreas Aloys Freiherr von Hügel (1854-1928) Austrian anthropologist, collector, explorer (Coenocorypha).
● Carl Alexander Anselm Freiherr von Hügel (1795-1870) Austrian diplomat, botanist, explorer (syn. Orthotomus sutorius maculicollis).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
