Acocil comes from the nahuatl language and is written "acotzilli"

Acocil is a fresh water crustacea is like a shrimp with two species (Cambarellus montezumae and Cambarellus zempoalensis), it resembles like a little crayfish or a small lobster and was considered in the past and persists as a delicious food. Acocil live in south Mexico specially in ponds, fresh water lakes or lagoons and dams, for example, Acocil can be found in the Guadalupe Victoria dam in the state of Mexico. This tiny animal feed with corrupted aquatic plants and animals of its environment. Superfamilies and families Alpheoidea Alpheidae - snapping shrimps Barbouriidae Hippolytidae Ogyrididae Atyoidea Atyidae Bresilioidea Agostocarididae Alvinocarididae Bresiliidae Disciadidae Mirocarididae Campylonotoidea Bathypalaemonellidae Campylonotoidae Crangonoidea Crangonoidea Glyphocrangonoidea Galatheacaridoidea Galatheacarididae Nematocarcinoidea Eugonatonotidae Nematocarcinidae Rhynchocinetidae Xiphocarididae Oplophoroidea Oplophoridae Palaemonoidea Anchistioididae Desmocarididae Euryrhynchidae Gnathophyllidae Hymenoceridae Kakaducarididae Palaemonidae Typhlocarididae Pandaloidea Pandalidae Thalassocarididae Pasiphaeoidea Pasiphaeidae Physetocaridoidea Physetocarididae Procaridoidea... The word crayfish can mean:- Sea crayfish, also called spiny lobster or rock lobster. ... Subfamilies and Genera Neophoberinae Acanthacaris Thymopinae Nephropsis Nephropides Thymops Thymopsis Nephropinae Homarus Nephrops Homarinus Metanephrops Eunephrops Thymopides Clawed lobsters comprise a family (Nephropidae, sometimes also Homaridae) of large marine crustaceans. ...

Acocil was a very important nutrition source of ancient mexican unhabitants of Central and South Mexico, specially was a part of the food consumption of the Mexica or Aztec culture.