Tringa is a genus of waders, containing the shanks and tattlers. The name Tringa is the Neo-Latin name given to the green sandpiper based on Ancient Greek trungas, a thrush-sized, white-rumped, tail-bobbing wading bird mentioned by Aristotle.

1/ Green sandpiper (Choắt bụng trắng, Tringa ochropus)
2/ Wood sandpiper (Choắt bụng xám, Tringa glareola)
The specific epithet glareola is from Latin glarea, " gravel".
3/ Spotted redshank (Choắt chân đỏ, Tringa erythropus)
The specific erythropus is from Ancient Greek eruthros, "red", and pous, "foot".
4/ Marsh sandpiper (Choắt đốm đen, Tringa stagnatilis)
The specific epithet stagnatilis is from Latin stagnum, "swamp".
5/ Common greenshank (Choắt lớn, Tringa nebularia)
The specific nebularia is from Latin nebula "mist". 
6/ Nordmann's greenshank (Choắt lớn mỏ vàng, Tringa guttifer) or the spotted greenshank
7/ Grey-tailed tattler (Choắt lùn đuôi xám, Tringa brevipes), also known as the Siberian tattler or Polynesian tattler,
formerly Heteroscelus brevipes.
The specific brevipes is from Latin brevis, "short", and pes, "foot".