Another variant spelling of cacomistle; the small carnivorous ringtail mammal of the southwestern United States and Mexico.
An alternative English spelling of the Nahuatl 'tlacomiztli,' with the '-le' ending reflecting a different transliteration choice from colonial Spanish sources.
Naturalists' field notebooks from the 1800s show they invented new spellings every time they encountered cacomistles because Nahuatl sounds didn't map neatly to English letters—making species identification tricky!
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