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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

  • About the Author
  • 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

1863 Jean Paul Louis Pelseneer (1863 - 1945) was born on this day. He was a Belgian chemistry teacher and keen amateur malacologist, although he never taught at university level he was recognised both in Belgium and abroad as one of the most eminent zoologists of his time. Pelseneer joined the Belgian Malacological Societ at the age of 17 (1880), studied under French zoologist Giardat at the marine laboratory in Wimereux (Université Lille Nord de France), and under English invertebrate zoologist Ray Lankester at University College London. He was given drawing lessons by the Belgian painter and sculptor Constantin Meunier in order to illustrate his scientific papers himself. Pelseneer received an honorary doctorate from the University of Brussels in recognition of his outstanding work on molluscs (1934).
Pelseneer described numerous mollusc taxa and is honoured in the name of a gastropod genus, Pelseneeria, and in the names of a number of species under pelsenneri.

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