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

1810 Philip Henry Gosse (1810 - 1888) was born on this day. He was an English naturalist and a prolific writer of popular natural history works. Gosse can be considered the father of the marine aquarium, he coined the term, 'aquarium' in the title of his book, The Aquarium: an unveiling of the wonders of the deep sea (1854), and became the first marine aquarium writer with the publication of, A Handbook to the Marine Aquarium (1855).
Gosse described around 220 taxa and is honoured in the names of numerous taxa and in the names of a number of species under gossei.

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