Anhingidae
蛇鹈科
shé-tí kē

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Information is from dictionaries and other sources. Pinyin reflects Mandarin pronunciation; for some dialect names, it is no more than a polite fiction. Korean glosses are tentative. Comments and corrections welcome. Hover over Green Lettering Green lettering at this site hides a tool tip with glosses, further explanations, etc. Hover cursor to reveal. to see additional information.

In Chinese, the Darter is known as 蛇鹈 shé-tí 'snake-pelican'. Given the birds resemblance to a cormorant rather than a pelican, the name possibly originates in Japanese ヘビウ (蛇鵜) hebi-u 'snake cormorant'. (Japanese 鵜 u means 'cormorant'; Chinese 鹈 tí means 'pelican').

Species names

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SCIENTIFIC & ENGLISH		CHINESE			EAST		SOUTH	NORTH
Anhinga
Latin	English	Chinese	Chinese (Taiwan)	Other Ch	Japanese	Korean	Vietnamese	Mongolian
Anhinga melanogaster	East Asian Darter Darter Indian darter Asian darter	黑腹蛇鹈 (黑腹蛇鵜) hēi-fù shé-tí 'black-bellied snake pelican'			アジアヘビウ (アジア蛇鵜) ajia hebi-u 'Asian snake cormorant'		Chim Cổ rắn 'snake-necked bird' (12, 34) or Chim Điêng điểng 'anhinga bird' (12, 34)

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