AQUATICAL•LATIN

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

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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

1869 Frank Mace MacFarland (1869 - 1951) was born on this day. He was a US malacologist, recognised as the leading authority on nudibranchs of his time. MacFarland was associated with Stanford University throughout his career joining the faculty less than a year after the University first opened (1892) and played a leading role in organizing the Hopkins Marine Biological Station, which he was in charge of from 1910 to 1913 and co-director from 1915 to 1917. He was also actively associated with the California Academy of Sciences, of which he was successively, corresponding secretary, first vice-president, and for fourteen years its president and, following his retirement from teaching, serving for five years as acting director of the museum and the Steinhart Aquarium.
MacFarland described around 75 new taxa and is honoured in the names of a number of species under macfarlandi.

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