Gallinago is a genus of birds in the wader family Scolopacidae, containing 18 species.

1/ Swinhoe's snipe, (Dẽ giun Swinhoe, Gallinago megala), also known as forest snipe or Chinese snipe

2/ Common snipe (Rẽ giun, Gallinago gallinago)

3/ Pin-tailed snipe or pintail snipe (Rẽ giun Á châu, Gallinago stenura)

4/ Wood snipe (Dẽ giun lớn, Rẽ giun lớn, Gallinago nemoricola)

5/ Solitary snipe (Gallinago solitaria)

The term Charadriiformes comes from New Latin, combining the Greek word kharadrios ("a bird of river valleys" or "a bird of ravines") and the Latin suffix -formes meaning "forms" or "shaped like". Therefore, Charadriiformes translates to "birds shaped like or resembling the charadrius," which is a type of plover or stone curlew historically found in dry river beds or ravines. 

The word Scolopacidae is New Latin, derived from the genus name Scolopax (Latin for "snipe" or "woodcock") and the common zoological suffix for family names, -idae.

The genus name gallinago is Neo-Latin for a woodcock or snipe from Latin gallina, "hen" and the suffix -ago, "resembling".