Acocil
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| 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 Japala in Jalisco to the crater lakes of Puebla", and so is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Carlos Montemayor & Donald H. Frischmann (2007). Words of the True Peoples: Poetry. 2. University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292705807. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DrQzQ8PanZ4C&pg=PA265.
- ^ 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 9781441904706. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FJrr9i6HRp0C&pg=PA543.
- ^ 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. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/153816. Retrieved November 16, 2011.
 |
This Decapoda article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
