AQUATICAL•LATIN

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

Fiction

About the Title About the Book How it Came to Be About the Author

Tim’s Musings News Links Miscellaneous

Here’s the cover image of my new novel. It’s available on both Amazon UK and Amazon US

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

1822 Charles Frédéric Girard (1822 - 1895) was born on this day. He was a French born US zoologist specializing in ichthyology and herpetology. Girard accompanied Agassiz to Harvard as his assistant; later moved on to the Smithsonian, where he was effectively both its first ichthyologist and first herpetologist, to work on the growing collection of North American fishes, amphibians, and reptiles. In 1861 he was awarded the Cuvier Prize by the Institute of France for his work on western regions of the New World and for his work on fishes and reptiles.
Girard described around 280 taxa and is honoured in the names of two genera of fishes and in the names of a number of species under girardi.

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