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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.

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New from Aquatical Latin…

  • 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.
    • 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

1883 Jean-Jacques Dussumier (1792 - 1883) died on this day. He was a French ship owner and merchant, an enthusiastic collector of natural history objects. Dussumier made at least eleven commercial voyages between 1816 - 1840 on his own vessels the Buffon and the Georges Cuvier, to the Indian Ocean and as far as the China Seas, bringing back numerous natural history specimens. He was particularly interested in fishes returning with many species new to science which were then described by naturalists such as Cuvier, Commerson, and Valenciennes.
Dussumier is honoured in the name of a genus of herrings, Dussumieria, and in the names of around 100 species under dussumieri(i).

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