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Table 1 Frequency (F), average rank (AR), and salience (S) of free-listed organisms

From: An ethnomedicinal study of the Seri people; a group of hunter-gatherers and fishers native to the Sonoran Desert

Kingdom

Phylum

Scientific name

Seri Name

F

AR

S

Literal translationa

Animalia

 

Annelida

Eurithoe cf. complanata (Pallas 1766)

Xepenozatx

3.8

3.5

0.018

Sting of the sea

 

Chordata

Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus 1758)

Moosni

3.8

5.50

0.014

Unanalyzable

 

Echonodermata

Heliaster kubinjii (Xantus 1860)

Pyooque

13.2

2.29

0.098

Unanalyzable

Echinometra vanbruti (A. Agassiz 1863)

Xepenosiml

79.2

1.4

0.694

Marine barrel cactus

Ophiocoma aethiops (Lütken 1859)

Hanol cahít

1.9

5

0.004

What cuts its arms

 

Molusca

Modiolus capax (Conrad 1837)

Satoj

1.9

6.00

0.009

Unanalizable

Octopus hubbsorum (Berry 1853)

Hapaj cosni

39.6

2.76

0.245

Octopi steak

Turbo fluctuosus (W. Wood, 1828)

Cotopis

22.6

2.33

0.142

Suction cup

Chromista

 

Chlorophyta

Codium simulans (Setchell and Gardner 1924)

Tacj oomas

5.7

4.33

0.036

Bottle nose dolphin’s fishing line

 

Ochrophyta

Sargassum sinicola (Setchell and Gardner 1924)

Xpanams caacöl

1.9

2.00

0.014

 

Ochrophyta

Colpomenia tuberculata (Saunders 1898)

Xpeetc

1.9

9.00

0.002

Unanalyzable

Rhodophyta

Kallymenia pertusa (Setchell and Gardner 1924)

Moosni ipnáail

5.7

2.33

0.041

The turtle’s skirt

Plantae

 

Family

 
 

Aizoaceae

Sesuvium sp. (Linnaeus 1759)

Spitj Caacöl

1.6

21

0.005

Large spitj

 

Apocynaceae

Vallesia glabra (Cavanilles 1724)

Tanoopa

1.6

2

0.013

Unanalyzable

 

Asteraceae

Ambrosia salsola ((Torr. & A. Gray) Strother & B.G. Baldwin 1849)

Caasol cacat

20.6

6.08

0.139

Large caasol

 

Bataceae

Batis maritima (Linnaeus 1759)

Pajoocsim

1.9

7

0.006

Unanalyzable

 

Burseraceae

Bursera microphylla (Gray 1861)

Xoop

50.8

5.13

0.313

Unanalyzable

Bursera hindsiana (Engler 1883)

Xopinl

9.5

5.50

0.048

Xoop’s hand

 

Celastraceae

Maytenus phyllanthoides (D. Dietrich 1844)

Cos

12.7

7.25

0.072

Unanalyzable

 

Chenopodiaceae

Suaeda sp. (Forsskål ex J. F. Gmelin, 1776)

Hatajípol

3.2

18.5

0.007

Unanalyzable

Atriplex barclayana (D. Dietrich 1852)

Spitj

3.2

12.50

0.016

Unanalyzable

 

Euphorbiaceae

Acalypha californica (Benthham 1844)

Queejam iti hacniix

38.1

5.50

0.228

Which piles out of season

 

Malpighiaceae

Callaeum macropterum (D.M. Johnson 1986)

Haxz ooxmoj

4.8

4

0.031

Dog’s hip

 

Malvaceae

Sphaeralcea ambigua var. ambigua (A. Gray 1887)

Jcoa ctamöc

25.4

5.56

0.169

Male Jcoa

 

Menispermaceae

Cocculus diversifolius (A. de Candolle 1817)

Comixaz

22.2

5.79

0.128

Unanalyzable

 

Rhizophoraceae

Rhizophora mangle (Linnaeus 1753)

Xnazolcam

26.4

3.93

0.100

Unanalyzable

 

Verbenaceae

Lippia palmeri (S. Watson 1889)

Xomcahiift

39.7

6.24

0.218

Unanalyzable

 

Viscaceae

Phoradendron californicum (Nuttall 1847)

Eaxt

6.3

6.25

0.022

Unanalyzable

 

Zygophythaceae

Larrea divaricata subsp. tridentata (DC.) Felger & C.H. Lowe (1970)

Haaxat

66.7

3.67

0.499

Unanalyzable

  1. aAll translations taken from Moser and Marlett’s Seri Dictionary [161]