Oceanitidae
アシナガウミツバメ科
ashi-naga umi-tsubame ka

General

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Storm-petrels of the Oceanitidae and Hydrobatidae are called ウミツバメ umi-tsubame in Japanese, meaning 'sea swallow' and written with the characters 海燕. The alternative reading カイエン kai-en, which is an on-reading of the same characters, also exists.

There are also the regional names ウミツバクラ umi-tsubakura and ウミツバクロ umi-tsubakuro, which use variants of the word ツバメ tsubame 'swallow'. In addition, the storm-petrels have numerous other regional names around Japan.

The Oceanitidae are here tentatively called アシナガウミツバメ ashi-naga umi-tsubame-ka 'long-legged sea-swallow family'.

Species names

SCIENTIFIC & WESTERN JAPANESE CHINESE KOREAN Oceanites Latin Eng, Fr, Ger, Ru Japanese Other J Chinese Chinese (Taiwan) Other Ch Korean Oceanites oceanicus Wilson's Storm-petrel Wilson's Storm Petrel Wilson's petrel Océanite de Wilson Buntfuß-Sturmschwalbe Качурка Вильсона アシナガウミツバメ (足長海燕) ashi-naga umi-tsubame 'long-legged sea-swallow'   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)   长脚白腰海燕 (長腳白腰海燕) cháng-jiǎo bái-yāo hǎi-yàn 'long-legged white-bellied sea-swallow'

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