Gallinago

Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Cladus: Sarcopterygii
Cladus: Rhipidistia
Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha
Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes
Cladus: Elpistostegalia
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Archosauromorpha
Cladus: Crurotarsi
Divisio: Archosauria
Cladus: Avemetatarsalia
Cladus: Ornithodira
Subtaxon: Dinosauromorpha
Cladus: Dinosauriformes
Cladus: Dracohors
Cladus: Dinosauria
Ordo: Saurischia
Cladus: Eusaurischia
Subordo: Theropoda
Cladus: Neotheropoda
Cladus: Averostra
Cladus: Tetanurae
Cladus: Avetheropoda
Cladus: Coelurosauria
Cladus: Tyrannoraptora
Cladus: Maniraptoromorpha
Cladus: Maniraptoriformes
Cladus: Maniraptora
Cladus: Pennaraptora
Cladus: Paraves
Cladus: Eumaniraptora
Cladus: Avialae
Infraclassis: Aves
Cladus: Euavialae
Cladus: Avebrevicauda
Cladus: Pygostylia
Cladus: Ornithothoraces
Cladus: Ornithuromorpha
Cladus: Carinatae
Parvclassis: Neornithes
Cohors: Neognathae
Cladus: Neoaves
Ordo: Charadriiformes
Subordo: Charadrii

Familia: Scolopacidae
Genus: Gallinago
Species: G. andina – G. delicata – G. gallinago – G. hardwickii – G. imperialis – G. jamesoni – G. macrodactyla – G. magellanica – G. media – G. megala – G. nemoricola – G. nigripennis – G. nobilis – G. paraguaiae – G. solitaria – G. stenura – G. stricklandii – G. undulata – †G. kakuki

Name

Gallinago Brisson, 1760

Typus: Scolopax gallinago Linnaeus, 1758 = Gallinago gallinago
References
Primary references

Brisson, M.J. 1760. Ornithologie ou méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés. A laquelle on a joint une description exacte de chaque espece, avec les citations des auteurs qui en ont traité, les noms qu'ils leur ont donnés, ceux que leur ont donnés les différentes nations, & les noms vulgaires. Ouvrage enrichi de figures en taille-douce. Tome V. pp. [1–3], 1–544, j–lv [= 1–55], [1], Pl. I–XLII [= 1–42]. Paris. (Bauche). Original description p. 298. Reference page. p. 304

Additional references

Steadman, D.W. & Takano, O.M. 2016. A new extinct species of Snipe (Aves: Scolopacidae: Gallinago) from the West Indies. Zootaxa 4109(3): 345–358. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4109.3.5. Reference page.
Miller, E.H., Areta, J.I., Jaramillo, A., Imberti, S. & Matus, R. 2019. Snipe taxonomy based on vocal and non-vocal sound displays: the South American Snipe is two species. Ibis 162(3): 968-990. DOI: 10.1111/ibi.12795 Reference page.

Links

Gallinago (Brisson, 1760) – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Vernacular names
English: Snipes
Esperanto: Anda galinago
español: Agachadizas; becasinas; becardones; agachadonas
suomi: Kurpat
français: Bécassines
日本語: タシギ属
한국어: 꺅도요속
Diné bizaad: Tábąąsdísí

Gallinago is a genus of birds in the wader family Scolopacidae, containing 17 species.
Taxonomy

The name Gallinago was introduced by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760 as a subdivision of the genus Scolopax.[1] Brisson did not use Carl Linnaeus's binomial system of nomenclature and although many of Brisson's genera had been adopted by ornithologists, his subdivision of genera were generally ignored.[2] Instead, the erection of the genus Gallinago for the snipes was credited to the German zoologist Carl Ludwig Koch in a book published in 1816.[3] But in 1920 it was discovered that the German naturalist Johann Samuel Traugott Frenzel had erected the genus Capella for the snipes in 1801. As his publication predated Koch's use of Gallinago it took precedence.[4][5] The American Ornithologists' Union switched to Capella in 1921[6] and in 1934 the American ornithologist James L. Peters used Capella for the woodcocks in his influential Check-list of Birds of the World.[7] This all changed in 1956 when the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature ruled that Gallinago Brisson 1760 should have priority for the genus with the common snipe as the type species.[8] The scientific name gallinago is New Latin for a woodcock or snipe from Latin gallina, "hen" and the suffix -ago, "resembling".[9]

The genus contains 18 species:[10]

Solitary snipe, Gallinago solitaria
Latham's snipe, Gallinago hardwickii
Wood snipe, Gallinago nemoricola
Pin-tailed snipe, Gallinago stenura
Swinhoe's snipe, Gallinago megala
African snipe, Gallinago nigripennis
Madagascar snipe, Gallinago macrodactyla
Magellanic snipe, Gallinago magellanica
Great snipe, Gallinago media
Common snipe, Gallinago gallinago
Wilson's snipe, Gallinago delicata
Pantanal snipe, Gallinago paraguaiae
Puna snipe, Gallinago andina
Noble snipe, Gallinago nobilis
Giant snipe, Gallinago undulata
Fuegian snipe, Gallinago stricklandii
Jameson's snipe, Gallinago jamesoni
Imperial snipe, Gallinago imperialis

This genus contains the majority of the world's snipe species, the other two extant genera being Coenocorypha, with three species, and Lymnocryptes, the jack snipe. Morphologically, they are all similar, with a very long slender bill and cryptic plumage. Most have distinctive displays, usually given at dawn or dusk. They search for invertebrates in the mud with a "sewing-machine" action of their long bills.

Fossil bones of some undescribed Gallinago species most similar to the great snipe have been recovered in Late Miocene or Early Pliocene deposits (c. 5 mya) of Lee Creek Mine, USA. The large West Indian species Gallinago kakuki went extinct during the late Quaternary period, and despite its distribution may actually be more closely related to Old World snipe species than New World ones.
References

Brisson, Mathurin Jacques (1760). Ornithologie, ou, Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés (in French and Latin). Vol. 5. Paris: Jean-Baptiste Bauche. pp. 298, 304.
Allen, J.A. (1910). "Collation of Brisson's genera of birds with those of Linnaeus". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 28: 317–335.
Koch, C.L. (1816). System der baierischen Zoologie (in German). Vol. 1. Nürnberg: Stein. p. xxvii, 312.
Mathews, G.M.; Iredale, T. (1920). "Sherborn and the systematist". Austral Avian Record. 4 (4&5): 130–132.
Frenzel, G.S.T. (1801), Beschreibung der Vögel und ihrer Eyer in der Gegend von Wittenberg zur Naturgeschichte des Churkreises (in German), Wittenberg aus der Tzschiedrichschen Officin, p. 58, OCLC 993253150
Mathews, G.M.; Iredale, T. (1920). "Sherborn and the systematist". Austral Avian Record. 4 (4&5): 130–132.
Peters, James Lee, ed. (1934). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 2. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 274.
Hemming, Francis, ed. (1956). "Direction 39: Substitution of Gallinago Brisson, 1760, for Gallinago Koch, 1816 (class Aves) on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology (correction of an error in the ruling given in Opinion 67)". Opinions and Declarations Rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Vol. 1 Section D Part D.4. London: International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature. pp. 95–138.
Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 170. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2021). "Sandpipers, snipes, coursers". IOC World Bird List Version 11.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 22 November 2021.