Editing Common snipe (section)

==Taxonomy==
The common snipe was [[Species description|formally described]] by the Swedish naturalist [[Carl Linnaeus]] in 1758 in the [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|tenth edition]] of his ''[[Systema Naturae]]'' under the [[binomial nomenclature|binomial name]] ''Scolopax gallinago''.<ref>{{cite book | last=Linnaeus | first=Carl | author-link=Carl Linnaeus | year=1758 | title= Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis | volume=1 | edition=10th | page=147 | publisher=Laurentii Salvii | location=Holmiae (Stockholm) | language=Latin | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/727054 }}</ref> The species is now placed with 17 other snipe in the [[genus]] ''Gallinago'' that was introduced by the French zoologist [[Mathurin Jacques Brisson]] in 1760.<ref>{{ cite book | last=Brisson | first=Mathurin Jacques | author-link=Mathurin Jacques Brisson | year=1760 | title=Ornithologie, ou, Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés | volume=5 | language=fr, la | pages=298, 304 | place=Paris | publisher=Jean-Baptiste Bauche | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36294640 }}</ref><ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=July 2021 | title=Sandpipers, snipes, coursers | work=IOC World Bird List Version 11.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/sandpipers/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=22 November 2021 }}</ref> The name ''gallinago'' is [[Neo-Latin]] for a [[woodcock]] or [[snipe]] from [[Latin]] ''gallina'', "hen" and the suffix ''-ago'', "resembling".<ref name=job>{{cite book | last= Jobling | first= James A | year= 2010| title= The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url= https://archive.org/details/helmdictionarysc00jobl_997 | url-access= limited | publisher=Christopher Helm | location = London | isbn = 978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=[https://archive.org/details/helmdictionarysc00jobl_997/page/n170 170]}}</ref>

Two [[subspecies]] are recognised:<ref name=ioc/>
* ''G. g. faeroeensis'' (Brehm, CL, 1831) – breeds in Iceland, [[Faroe Islands]], [[Orkney]] and [[Shetland Islands]]; non-breeding in British Isles
* ''G. g. gallinago'' (Linnaeus, 1758) – [[nominate subspecies]]; breeds in central, north Europe and Asia; non-breeding in west Europe, Africa, Indonesia and Japan
The North American [[Wilson's snipe]] was previously considered the same species, and is listed as such in older field guides.