AQUATICAL•LATIN

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

Links…

The Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum Writing Group: https://sjbmwg.wordpress.com

Unreal Writers: https://unrealwriters.beehiiv.com.

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Back to Fiction.

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

1922 Eugenie Clark (1922 - 2015) was born on this day. She was a US ichthyologist primarily known for her work on sharks, often referred to as the Shark Lady; founder of the Mote Marine Laboratory. Clark was a pioneer of diving, learning to dive with equipment pre-dating Scuba. Over the course of her career she authored more than 175 scientific articles and two popular books, Lady with a Spear (1953) and The Lady and the Sharks (1969). Clark was an authority on shark behavior and became the first scientist to demonstrate that sharks were capable of being trained. She also worked on other groups of fishes including the Tetraodontiformes, sand fishes in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aqaba, and Convict blennies, gaining knowledge of their adult size, behavior, and natural habitat previously unknown to science.
Clark described several new taxa and is honoured in the names of a number of species under clarkae, geniae, and (unusually) clarki.

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