South American painted-snipe
| South American painted-snipe | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Family: | Rostratulidae |
| Genus: | Nycticryphes Wetmore & Peters, 1923 |
| Species: | N. semicollaris |
| Binomial name | |
| Nycticryphes semicollaris (Vieillot, 1816) | |
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The South American painted-snipe (Nycticryphes semicollaris), or lesser painted-snipe, is a shorebird in the family Rostratulidae. There are two other species in its family, the Australian painted-snipe and the greater painted-snipe.