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Arenaria, commonly known as turnstone, is a genus of birds in the wader family Scolopacidae, containing only two species.
The genus name arenaria is from Latin arenarius, "inhabiting sand", from arena, "sand".

1/ Ruddy turnstone (Rẽ khoang, Arenaria interpres)
The specific epithet interpres means "messenger".

Ruddy turnstone (Rẽ khoang, Arenaria interpres)

The ruddy turnstone (Arenaria interpres) is a small cosmopolitan wading bird, one of two species of turnstone in the genus Arenaria.

Charadriidae, Charadrius: Late Latin word for a yellowish bird mentioned in the fourth-century Vulgate; from Ancient Greek kharadrios a bird found in ravines and river valleys (kharadra, "ravine").

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 arenaria is from Latin arenarius, "inhabiting sand", from arena, "sand".
The specific epithet interpres means "messenger".