Madagascar Snipe
Gallinago macrodactylaBonaparte, CLJL, 1839
English (US) Madagascar Snipe
The Madagascar Snipe (Gallinago macrodactyla) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Scolopacidae (Sandpipers and Allies) in the order Charadriiformes.
Range: marshes of eastern and central massif of MadagascarRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Gallinago macrodactyla
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Madagascar Snipe
- Described by
- Bonaparte, CLJL, 1839
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Bonaparte, CLJL, 1839
- Type locality
- No locality = Madagascar.
- Original description
- Iconografia della fauna italica per le quattro classi degli animali vertebrati 1, fasc. 25 p.3 textpl.43
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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