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AQUATICAL•LATIN featured on Reefs.com

Posted on 15th October 201715th October 2017 by Timataquaticallatin

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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

1799 Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723 – 1799) died on this day. He was a German naturalist and doctor, generally considered to be the most important ichthyologist of the 18th century. On becoming a M.D. (1747) he settled in Berlin, where he established himself as a physician and began to collect natural history objects. Bloch is best known for his encyclopaedic ichthyological work, Allgemeine Naturgeschichte der Fische (1782 – 1795), a 12-volume, beautifully illustrated comprehensive work on fishes; the first three volumes described German fishes, Oeconomische Naturgeschichte der Fische Deutschlands and the remaining volumes dealt with fishes from the rest of the world, Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische. Bloch’s Systema Ichthyologiae (1801), containing descriptions of 1,254 species, was planned as the crowning achievement of his ichthyological work, but he did not live to see it completed, it was revised and published after his death by Johann Gottlob Schneider. Bloch's collection of around 1500 specimens, the largest collection of fishes of his time, is held today at the Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt Universität, Berlin.
In the course of his work Bloch described numerous taxa and is honoured in the names of a number of species under blochi(i).

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