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Painted-snipes
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Painted-snipes

Rostratulidae

The Rostratulidae (commonly known as painted-snipes), form a taxonomic family of wader species, composed of two genera: Rostratula and Nycticryphes.

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2 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 3 known species

Old World Painted-snipes

genusRostratula

Nycticryphes

genusNycticryphes

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 3995.