Oceanitidae

General

Information is from dictionaries and other sources. Comments and corrections welcome. All Malaysian and Indonesian names in the process of conversion into modernised spelling only. 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.

Historically there are almost no traditional Malay names recorded for any of the pelagic seabirds, and none at all for the storm-petrels. Therefore, all their names are modern ornithological constructs.

These ornithological names are all based on English, either direct borrowings (as in petral ~ petrel and stom-petrel), or hybrid compound loan-translations (as in petrel-badai).

The respelling of 'petrel' as 'petral' appears to have originated accidentally in Ismail 1981 for the Procellariidae, where it is also spelt 'petral' in the English.

This spelling was then extended to the ornithological Malaysian names for the storm-petrels.

Ornithological naming

Malaysian

Form of Name	Literal Meaning	Ornithological Malaysian
stom-petral	'storm-petrel' (from English)	Oceanites, Hydrobates (Hydrobatidae)
petral	'petrel' (from English)	Oceanites, Hydrobates (Hydrobatidae), Bulweria  (Procellariidae)

Indonesian

Form of Name	Literal Meaning	Ornithological Indonesian
petrel badai	'storm-petrel' (from English)	Oceanites, Hydrobates (Hydrobatidae)
petrel	'petrel' (from English)	Bulweria (Procellariidae)

Species names

SCIENTIFIC & WESTERN		MALAY			OTHER S. E. ASIAN		EAST ASIAN
Oceanites
Latin	English	Malaysian	Other M	Indonesian	Thai	Vietnamese	Chinese	Japanese
Oceanites oceanicus	Wilson's Storm-petrel Wilson's Storm Petrel Wilson's petrel	Burung Stom-petral Wilson 'Wilson's storm-petrel (bird)' (stom-petral from English) (24) Burung Petral Wilson 'Wilson's petrel (bird)' (petral from English) (25)		Burung Petrel-badai Coklat 'brown storm-petrel (bird)' (petrel from English) (conflicts with Hydrobates monorhis, copy error from 29) Burung Petrel Badai Pantat Putih 'white-rumped storm-petrel (bird)' (petrel from English) (29)			黄蹼洋海燕 (黄蹼洋海燕) huáng-pǔ yáng hǎi-yàn 'yellow-webbed ocean sea-swallow' (4, 5) 烟黑叉尾海燕 (煙黑叉尾海燕) yān-hēi chā-wěi hǎi-yàn 'smoky-black fork-tailed sea-swallow' (3) 'Conflicts with name for Hydrobates matsudairae.'	アシナガウミツバメ (足長海燕) ashi-naga umi-tsubame 'long-legged sea-swallow'

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A Field Guide to the Birds of China (Chinese translation) by John MacKinnon, Karen Phillipps, in collaboration with He Fen-qi, translated by Lu Hefen, Hunan Jiaoyu Chubanshe (Hunan Educational Press) Changsha 2000

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世界鸟类名称（拉丁文、汉文、英文对照）第二版 郑作新等 科学出版社 北京 2002年
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Chim Việt Nam Nguyễn Cử, Lê Trọng Trải, Karen Phillipps; Nhà Xuất Bản Lao Động - Xã Hội, 2000

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List of the Names of Birds of Peninsular Malaysia and Southeast Asia by Ismail, Abdul Rahman, Department of Wildlife and National Parks, Peninsular Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur 1981

The Birds of the Thai-Malay Peninsula: Vol. 1 - Non-passerines by Wells, David R., Academic Press, London 1999

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