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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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

1901 Rolf Ling Bolin (1901 - 1973) was born on this day. He was a US ichthyologist. A faculty member at Stanford and Assistant, later Associate, Director of Hopkins Marine Station, and program director for the Te Vega, a 100 foot long schooner, which was converted into a floating laboratory and classroom to allow students direct experience of biological oceanography. Bolin was a friend of Ricketts and Steinbeck, he identified some of the creatures from their Sea of Cortez trip.
Bolin described around 30 taxa and is honoured in the names of two genera of fishes and in the names of a number of species under bolini.

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