The snipe-rail (Capellirallus karamu) is an extinct flightless rail endemic to the North Island of New Zealand.

[2] The snipe-rail was a relatively small rail[3] which had a bill of about 7 cm, very long in proportion to its body size.

[3] Its weight was about 240 g.[3] The type material consists of an incomplete skeleton, including vertebrae, a pelvis, and a hind limb.

[2] Since the discovery of these remains, many complete skeletons[2] consisting of hundreds of bones[3] have been unearthed on different sites in the North Island.

[3] The exact date of the snipe-rail's extinction is unknown, but it is supposed that the decline began in the 13th century,[3] when the Kiori/Polynesian rat became widespread in New Zealand.