Use and management of wild fauna by people of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley and surrounding areas, Mexico

Table 1 Number of animal species reported for the study area and the proportion of species used in the region and in other parts of Mesoamerica

Taxonomic group	P: Number of species present in the VTC^a	Number of Orders, Families, Genera, Species (UR)^b with current use report in the VTC	Number of Orders, Families, Genera, Species (URO)^c with use report in other regions	Species with use reports in the TCV (UR/P*100) (%)	Species with use reports in the TCV and other regions ((UR+URO)/P)*100) (%)
Vertebrates	652	25, 51, 74, 75	25, 60, 121, 158	11.50	35.73
Aves	372	13, 26, 39, 41	16, 37, 81, 107	11.02	39.78
Mammalia	133	9, 17, 24, 27	4, 7, 13, 16	20.30	32.33
Reptilia	93	2, 7,10, 7	3, 10, 20, 26	7.52	35.48
Amphibia	38	0	2, 6, 7, 9	0.00	23.68
Actinopterigia	16	1, 1, 1, 2 Nd	Nd	1.25	Nd
Insecta	765	5, 19, 33, 32	4, 9, 16, 20	4.18	6.79
Lepidoptera	368	–,7, 11, 11	–, 4, 11, 15	2.98	7.06
Hymenoptera (Apidae)	262	–, –, 2, 2	–, –, 1, 1, 1	0.01	1.14
Hymenoptera (Vespidae)	Nd*	–, –, 4, 4	Nd	Nd	Nd
Hymenoptera (Formicidae)	31	–, –, 2, 3	–,1,1,1	9.67	12.90
Coleoptera	72	–, 5, 5, 5	–, 3, 3, 3	6.94	11.11
Hemiptera	24	–, 3, 5, 5	Nd	20.83	Nd
Orthoptera	8	–, 1, 4, 4	Nd	50	Nd

Nd*: Not determined. a,b,c: References: ^aMammalia: [56,57,58, 74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81]; Reptilia and Amphibia: [47, 54, 59, 82,83,84,85,86,87]; Aves: [47, 51, 62, 73, 88,89,90,91,92,93]; Actinopterigia: [94]; Lepidoptera: [63]; Apidae: [64, 65, 95]; Formicidae: [66]; Coleoptera: [67, 68]; Hemiptera: [69, 96]; Orthoptera: [70]. List of species is not provided but see “References” section for the consulted literature)
^b[33, 47, 51, 72, 73, 97,98,99,100,101,102,103,104,105,106], Rangel-Landa, Smith, Zarazúa and Chávez, this study. See Additional file 3 for a summarized list of the species and Additional file 4 to see the full records (in Spanish)
^c[31,32,33, 107,108,109,110,111,112,113,114,115,116,117,118,119,120,121,122,123,124,125,126,127,128,129,130,131,132,133,134,135,136,137,138,139,140,141,142,143]. See Additional file 5 for the list of species (in Spanish)

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