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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. Vol. 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 (ed.). 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.
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