AQUATICAL•LATIN

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

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AQUATICAL•LATIN – site updated to cover both Tim’s Fiction and Non-Fiction books

Posted on 24th February 202624th February 2026 by Timataquaticallatin

Go to Fiction.

Pleas note: this is a work in progress.

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AQUATICAL•LATIN featured on Reefs.com

Posted on 15th October 201715th October 2017 by Timataquaticallatin

Many thanks to Reefs.com for featuring both the AQUATICAL•LATIN website and the new AQUATICAL•LATIN book.

To see more go to: Reefs.com

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New from Aquatical Latin…

  • AQUATICAL•LATIN – site updated to cover both Tim’s Fiction and Non-Fiction books 24th February 2026
  • 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

Contents

  • AQUATICAL•LATIN – the Book
    • AQUATICAL•LATIN Vol 1 – Index of Common Names
  • Fiction
    • About the Author…
    • About the Book…
    • About the Title…
    • How it Came to Be…
    • Links…
    • Miscellaneous
    • News…
    • Tim’s Musings…
  • Site Map
  • Welcome to AQUATICAL•LATIN
  • Latin & Greek – English Lexicon.
    • An introduction to the ancient Greek alphabet.
    • Words relating to number or quantity.
    • Colour terms.
    • Words relating to markings
      • Lines and stripes
      • Spots and blotches
    • Suffixes
    • Geographical epithets
    • Eponyms
    • Scientific Terms
  • AQUATICAL•LATIN – the online etymology
  • This Day In History

This Day In History

1785 John James Audubon (1785 - 1851) was born on this day. He was a US ornithologist, naturalist, and painter; he had the goal of finding and painting all the birds of North America for publication. Audobon is best known for his The Birds of America (1827-39), considered one of the finest ornithological works ever completed. He described 25 new species and had a far reaching influence on ornithology and natural history.
Whilst ichthyologist Rafinesque was a guest of Audubon he noticed a bat in his room and, thinking it a new species, grabbed Audubon's favourite violin in an effort to knock it down, resulting in the destruction of the violin. Audubon took revenge by describing fictitious fishes to Rafinesque who went on to record them in his Ichthyologia Ohiensis (1820).

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