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Onychoprion
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Onychoprion
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Laridae
Onychoprion, the "brown-backed terns", is a genus of seabirds in the family Laridae.
The genus name is from Ancient Greek onux, "claw" or "nail", and prion, "saw".1/ Bridled tern (Nhàn lưng đen, Onychoprion anaethetus)
The specific anaethetus means "senseless, stupid".2/ Sooty tern (Nhàn nâu, Onychoprion fuscatus), coloquially wideawake tern or just wideawake
The specific fuscatus is Latin for "dark". -
Sooty Tern
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Laridae
- Genus: Onychoprion
Sooty tern (Nhàn nâu, Onychoprion fuscatus), coloquially wideawake tern or just wideawake
The sooty tern (Onychoprion fuscatus) is a tern in the family Laridae.
Charadriiformes, 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").
Laridae:from Ancient Greek laros or Latin larus, which appears to have referred to a gull or other large seabird.
The genus name Onychoprion is from Ancient Greek onux, "claw" or "nail", and prion, "saw".
The specific fuscatus is Latin for "dark".