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

1903 Tune Sakai (1903 - 1986) was born on this day. He was a Japanese carcinologist, considered to be the father of Japanese carcinology. Professor at Yokohama University and Zoological Advisor to the Emperor, Sakai was the leading authority on the crabs of Japan. His publications include Crabs of Japan (1935), Studies on the Crabs of Japan (1936-39), his study of the Emperor's collection The Crabs of Sagami Bay (1967), and Crabs of Japan and the Adjacent Seas (1976).
Sakai described many taxa and is honoured in the names of a genus of anemone or boxing crabs, Tunebia, a genus of spider crabs, Sakaija, and in the names of a number of species under sakai(i).

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