Cultural consensus and intracultural diversity in ethnotaxonomy: lessons from a fishing community in Northeast Brazil

Table 2 List of the 33 most salient ethnospecies and ethnogenera of fish for Siribinha, Brazil

Ethnospecies	Probable academic scientific species	Salience	p value
Tainha	Mugil curema	0.717	< 0.001
Carapeba	Eugerres brasilianus	0.584	< 0.001
Robalão	Centropomus undecimalis	0.464	< 0.001
Robalo branco	Centropomus parallelus	0.386	< 0.001
Pescada branca	Cynoscion leiarchus	0.339	< 0.001
Pescada amarela	Cynoscion acoupa	0.330	< 0.001
Robalo espalmado	Centropomus parallelus	0.303	< 0.001
Curimã	Mugil liza	0.299	< 0.001
Vermelho	Lutjanus purpureus	0.294	< 0.001
Robalo*	Centropomus spp.	0.224	< 0.001
Corvina	Micropogonias furnieri	0.220	< 0.001
Bagre fidalgo	Bagre bagre	0.215	< 0.001
Bagre amarelo	Sciades herzbergii	0.206	< 0.001
Bagre griaçu	Sciades proops	0.191	< 0.001
Bagre do mangue	Genidens barbus	0.178	< 0.001
Xaréu	Caranx hippos	0.171	< 0.001
Cavala	Scomberomorus cavalla	0.165	< 0.001
Sardinha	Opisthonema oglinum	0.165	< 0.001
Pescada barracuda	Sphyraena guachancho	0.142	< 0.001
Bagre uruçu	Apistor luniscutis	0.136	< 0.001
Cação martelo	Sphyrna spp.	0.132	< 0.001
Sororoca	Scomberomorus brasiliensis	0.115	0.001
Capadinho	Unidentified	0.109	0.002
Cação*	Several species	0.107	0.003
Catana	Trichiurus lepturus	0.103	0.005
Bagre cagão	Unidentified	0.099	0.008
Badejo	Mycteroperca bonaci	0.088	0.025
Pescada*	Cynoscion spp.	0.088	0.026
Caçonete*	Several species	0.086	0.030
Arraia*	Several species	0.086	0.033
Roncador	Ballistes vetulla	0.084	0.039
Guaricema	Caranx crysos	0.083	0.041
Mirucaia	Ctenosciaena gracilicirrhus	0.083	0.042

The probable overlapping academic scientific species to the ethnospecies are indicated (identified by José Amorim dos Reis Filho/see main text for explanation). *Ethnogenera that encompasses many species. (See Additional file 1: Table S2 for complete list)

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