AQUATICAL•LATIN

An ongoing project investigating the etymology of the scientific names applied to aquatic species.

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New on AQUATICAL•LATIN – Index of Common Names 27th February 2018
AQUATICAL•LATIN featured in Practical Fishkeeping April 2018 20th February 2018
AQUATICAL•LATIN featured in DIVER magazine Feb 2018 13th February 2018
Book Launch featured on Lichfield Live 15th December 2017
AQUATICAL•LATIN official book launch. 6th December 2017

Contents

AQUATICAL•LATIN – the Book
- AQUATICAL•LATIN Vol 1 – Index of Common Names
Site Map
Welcome to AQUATICAL•LATIN
Latin & Greek – English Lexicon.
AQUATICAL•LATIN – the online etymology
This Day In History

This Day In History

1924 John E. “Jack” Randall (1924 - ) was born this day. A US ichthyologist and leading authority on coral reef fishes, the first recipient of the Bleeker Award in Systematic Ichthyology (2005). Most of his career has been spent at the Bishop Museum, Hawaii, as Ichthyologist (1966 - 1984) then Senior Ichthyologist (1984 - onward). A prolific worker, Randall has described more than 600 species, authored 11 books including Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea (with G.R. Allen & R.C. Steene, 1990), Shore Fishes of Hawaii (1996), and Reef and Shore Fishes of the South Pacific: New Caledonia to Tahiti and the Pitcairn Islands (2005), along with over 670 scientific papers and popular articles. He is also renowned for his photography of both underwater and newly collected specimens.
Randall is honoured in the names of two genera of fishes and in the names of species under jackrandalli, randalli, and randallorum.

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