Acocil
| Acocil | |
|---|---|
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Infraorder: | Astacidea |
| Family: | Cambaridae |
| Genus: | Cambarellus |
| Species: | C. montezumae |
| Binomial name | |
| Cambarellus montezumae Saussure, 1857 | |
Acocil is a species of crayfish native to Mexico, Cambarellus montezumae. The name acocil comes from the Nahuatl cuitzilli, meaning "crooked one of the water" or "squirms in the water".[1] It is a traditional foodstuff of the Pre-Columbian Mexicans, who boiled or baked the animal, and ate it in tacos.[2] It is found across a broad section of Mexico, "from Lake Chapala in Jalisco to the crater lakes of Puebla", and so is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.[3]
References
- ↑ Carlos Montemayor & Donald H. Frischmann (2007). Words of the True Peoples: Poetry 2. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-70580-7.
- ↑ Lorenzo Ochoa (2009). "Topophilia: a tool for the demarcation of cultural microregions: the case of the Huaxteca". In John Edward Staller & Michael D. Carrasco. Pre-Columbian Foodways: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Food, Culture, and Markets in Ancient Mesoamerica. Springer. pp. 535–552. doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-0470-3_22. ISBN 978-1-4419-0470-6.
- ↑ F. Alvarez, M. López-Mejía & C. Pedraza Lara (2010). "Cambarellus montezumae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved November 16, 2011.