Ibi-So names for Plants and Animals edited by Jeffrey Heath and Steven Moran This document was created from Tsammalex on 2015-05-13. Tsammalex is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License and should be cited as Christfried Naumann & Steven Moran & Guillaume Segerer & Robert Forkel (eds.) 2015. Tsammalex: A lexical database on plants and animals. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at http://tsammalex.clld.org, Accessed on 2015-05-13.) A full list of contributors is available at http://tsammalex.clld.org/contributors The list of references cited in this document is available at http://tsammalex.clld.org/sources http://tsammalex.clld.org/ Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Arachnida Order: Prostigmata Family: Leeuwenhoekiidae Dinothrombium tinctorium . • àgá:-nà . "small scarlet-red velvet mite that emerges in fields after rains". Lit. "sky-mother". (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime Languages Project Languages Project Order: Solifugae Family: Galeodidae Galeodes olivieri Simon, 1879 . • yó:gò-yó:gò . "wind scorpion, sun scorpion". (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime Languages Project Languages Project Languages Project 2 of 105 http://tsammalex.clld.org/ Class: Chilopoda Order: Scolopendromorpha Family: Scolopendridae Scolopendra . • sǒŋ mwɛ̀:ⁿ . "large biting centipede (scolopender)". (CC) BY © Sam Fraser-Smith (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime (CC) BY-SA © Matt Reinbold Languages Project Class: Diplopoda Order: Spirostreptida Family: Spirostreptidae Archispirostreptus . • kàrⁿùkɔ́:ⁿ . "giant millipede". (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime Languages Project (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime Languages Project Class: Insecta Order: Coleoptera Family: Cetoniidae 3 of 105 http://tsammalex.clld.org/ Pachnoda cordata (Drury, 1773) . • kɛ̀:-búⁿ . "millet-eating cetonid beetle sp. (orange with large black blotches)". (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime (CC) BY-SA © Languages Project Languages Project Pachnoda marginata (Drury, 1773) . • kɛ̀:-búⁿ . "cetonid beetle sp., dark with orange margin, in tree flowers". (CC) BY-SA © (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime Languages Project Languages Project Rhabdotis sobrina (Gory & Percheron, 1833) . • kɛ̀:-búⁿ . "cetonid beetle sp., dark green with white streaks and spots, in sheath in ground (said to eat acacia flowers)". 4 of 105 http://tsammalex.clld.org/ (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime Languages Project Languages Project (CC) BY © Biodiversity Heritage Library Order: Diptera Family: Tachinidae Musca . • bɔ̀rɔ̀-dɛ̂: . "banana". Sarcophaga . • ɲèŋgɛ̀ⁿ-bɔ̀mɔ́ . "large, sluggish flesh fly". (CC) PUBLICDOMAIN © Jan Moravec (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime (CC) BY-NC-SA © BioImages - the Virtual Fieldguide Languages Project (UK) Order: Hemiptera Family: Coreidae Anoplocnemis curvipes . • kɛ̀: kú:ⁿ . "tip wilter bug (leaf-footed bug, legume-eatiing)". 5 of 105 http://tsammalex.clld.org/ (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime Languages Project Order: Hymenoptera Family: Apidae Apis mellifera Linnaeus, 1758 . • ɲǒyⁿ . "honey bee". (CC) BY-SA © (CC) BY © Treesha Duncan Family: Eumenidae Delta emarginatum (Linnaeus, 1758) . • jú-jǒŋ . "black mud wasp (mud-dauber)". (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime Languages Project (CC) BY-SA © (CC) BY-SA © Polistes . • nánù . "brownish paper wasp sp. with yellow cross-bands, nest in leaves". 6 of 105 http://tsammalex.clld.org/ (CC) BY-NC © Biopix (CC) BY © Miroslav Deml (CC) BY-NC-SA © Flickr Family: Formicidae Camponotus maculatus (Fabricius, 1782) . • tó:ɲɛ̂: . "honey ant (yellow, fast-moving)". (CC) BY-SA © April Nobile (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime Languages Project Messor . • kɛ᷈:y . "large black grain-eating ant sp. in fields". (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime (CC) BY-NC-SA © April Nobile (CC) BY-NC-SA © April Nobile Languages Project Pachycondyla . • mì-mìrⁿì gâ:r . "stinging black ant sp.". Lit. "ant bitter". 7 of 105 http://tsammalex.clld.org/ • mì-mìrⁿì sígîr . "stinging black ant sp.". (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime (CC) BY-NC-SA © April Nobile Languages Project (CC) BY-NC-SA © April Nobile Order: Orthoptera Family: Acrididae Acanthacris ruficornis citrina . • kì-kà: bá:-dòŋò . "grasshopper sp.". (CC) BY © gailhampshire (CC) BY-SA © Acorypha clara . • dúm-kèlè . "grasshopper sp.". (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime Languages Project 8 of 105 http://tsammalex.clld.org/ Acorypha glaucopsis . • dúm-kèlè . "grasshopper sp.". (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime Languages Project Languages Project Anacridium melanorhodon . • kóró-ká:jà . "grasshopper sp. (tree locust)". (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime Languages Project Cataloipus cymbiferus . • sòŋ-[kì-kǎ:] . "grasshopper sp.". Lit. "horse-grasshopper". (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime Languages Project Diabolocatantops axillaris . • kà:-pɔ̀rú . "grasshopper sp.". 9 of 105 http://tsammalex.clld.org/ (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime Languages Project Languages Project Languages Project Heteracris annulosa . • kòŋòtô: kì-kà: . "grasshopper sp.". Lit. "Leptadenia's grasshopper". (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime Languages Project Languages Project Languages Project Hieroglyphus daganensis . • yɛ̀:-púlɔ̀ . "grasshopper sp.". (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime Languages Project Languages Project Languages Project Kraussaria angulifera . • yɛ̀:-bɔ̂y . "grasshopper sp.". 10 of 105 http://tsammalex.clld.org/ (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime Languages Project (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime Languages Project Kraussella amabile . • pɛ̀jù-[kì-kå:] . "grasshopper sp.". (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime Languages Project Languages Project Oedaleus senegalensis . • pɛ̀lɛ̀m-pɛ̂y . "grasshopper sp.". (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime (CC) BY-SA © Languages Project (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime Languages Project Ornithacris cavroisi . • kà:-pèlêm . "grasshopper sp.". 11 of 105 http://tsammalex.clld.org/ (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime Languages Project PD © Orthacanthacris humilicrus . • kì-kà: bá:-dòŋò . "grasshopper sp.". (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime Languages Project Family: Pyrgomorphidae Poekilocerus bufonius hieroglyphicus . • pòbú kì-kà: . "grasshopper sp.". (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime Languages Project Languages Project 12 of 105 http://tsammalex.clld.org/ Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Characiformes Family: Alestidae Brycinus . • is̀sì-sámnáy . "small and mid-sized sardine-like fish spp.". (CC) BY © (CC) BY-SA © Order: Siluriformes Family: Mochokidae Synodontis schall . • mbárⁿí: ìjù . "spiny upside-down catfish sp.". Lit. "baby's fish". (CC) BY-SA © Peter van der Sluijs Class: Amphibia Order: Anura Family: Bufonidae 13 of 105 http://tsammalex.clld.org/ Amietophrynus xeros (Tandy, Tandy, Keith and Duff-MacKay, 1976) . • gàŋgùjú . "subdesert toad". (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime Languages Project Languages Project Languages Project Family: Dicroglossidae Hoplobatrachus occipitalis (Günther, 1858) . • gòyⁿ ná . "groove-crowned bullfrog". (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime Languages Project (CC) BY © Jeff Heath and the Dogon and Bangime Languages Project Languages Project Class: Aves Order: Accipitriformes Family: Accipitridae Accipiter badius (Gmelin, 1788) . Characteristics: carnivore; body-length: 28-30 cm; grey plumage above; russet barring below; yellow legs and cere. (Sinclair 1994: 86) • gěwⁿ-jàbúrù . "shikra (sparrowhawk)". 14 of 105 http://tsammalex.clld.org/ (CC) BY-SA © J.M.Garg (CC) BY-SA © Ravi Vaidyanathan Gyps rueppellii (A. E. Brehm, 1852) . Characteristics: carnivore; body-length: 115 cm, brown plumage; wings with dark flight feathers and pale linings. (Sinclair 1994: 70) • dùbɔ́ . "Rueppell's griffon vulture". (CC) BY-NC-SA © Gerald and Buff Corsi PD © PD © Milvus migrans (Boddaert, 1783) . Characteristics: carnivore; body-length: 56 cm; long forked tail; dark plumage. (Sinclair 1994: 88) • jɛ̀mɛ̀-kómó . "kite (hawk)". (CC) BY-SA © Thomas Kraft (CC) BY-NC © inaturalist (CC) BY-SA © 15 of 105 http://tsammalex.clld.org/ Order: Anseriformes Family: Anatidae Anas clypeata Linnaeus, 1758 . Characteristics: carnivore; body-length: 53 cm; brown, black and white speckled plumage; large bill; male in breeding season: green head; white chest; brown belly; blue feathers on the forewing. Biotope: freshwater, coast. (Sinclair 1994: 68) • òrú tàgàyɛ̀rɛ̀ . "northern shoveler