Common name of Carcharhinus limbatus
 
Common name Cação-sicuri
Language Portuguese
Dialect Latin
Type Vernacular
Official trade name No
Rank 3 - (Other common name)
Country Brazil
Locality
Ref. Nomura, H., 1984
Life stage juveniles and adults
Sex females and males
Core primary lexeme
1st modifier non-fish animal
2nd modifier
Remarks Cação = shark + sicuri = probably a variation of sucuri (snake) = from suú-curi, a Tupi-Guarani word that means "to bite fast" (Bueno, 1998); also referred in Szpilman (2000)
 
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