South American Animal Names

This book is a compilation of animal names in indigenous languages of South America, in particular lowland tropical South America. As an "ethnolinguistic field guide," this book is a hybrid between an etymological dictionary and a biological field guide, similar to Ross et al. (2011) and Chamberlain (2018).

Table of contents

Front matter

• Introduction
• Sources

Chapter 1: Mammals

• Mammals
  • Monkeys
  • Armadillos
  • Canids
  • Felids
  • Deer
  • Pigs
  • Rodents

Chapter 2: Birds

• Birds
  • Parrots
  • Tinamous
  • Raptors
  • Piciformes
  • Passerines

Chapter 3: Reptiles and amphibians

• Amphibians
• Reptiles
  • Crocodiles
  • Turtles
  • Lizards
  • Snakes

Chapter 4: Fish

• Fish
  • Catfish
  • Characins (piranha, pacu, and relatives)
  • Cichlids

Chapter 5: Invertebrates

• Invertebrates
  • Coleoptera
  • Hymenoptera
    • Ants
    • Bees
    • Wasps

Further reading

• Matsés animal and plant names (Spanish Wikipedia), a good resource for checking Amazonian Spanish names of animals and plants.

Related books

• South American Plant Names
• Field Guide