South American Painted-snipe
Nycticryphes semicollaris(Vieillot, LJP, 1816)
English (US) South American Painted-snipe
The South American Painted-snipe (Nycticryphes semicollaris) 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 Rostratulidae (Painted-Snipes) in the order Charadriiformes.
Range: locally in lowlands of Paraguay and southeastern Brazil to south-central Argentina and central ChileRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Nycticryphes semicollaris
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Near Threatened
- English (US)
- South American Painted-snipe
- Described by
- (Vieillot, LJP, 1816)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Totanus semi-collaris
- Described by
- (Vieillot, LJP, 1816)
- Type locality
- Paraguay, ex Azara no. 405.
- Original description
- Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine, etc. Nouvelle édition 6 p.402
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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