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

1803 Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803 - 1857) was born on this day. He was a French zoologist, working in ichthyology and ornithology, nephew of Emperor Napoleon. Director of the Jardin des Plantes (1854). Although much of his work involved ornithology, his publications concerning ichthyology include Catalogo metodico dei pesci Europei (1846), and Conspectus systematis ornithologiae, mastozoologiae, reptologiae et amphibologiae, ichthyologiae (1850). Bonaparte questioned the systematic position of a number of vertebrate groups and suggested revisions in the placement of all five vertebrate classes taking into account zoogeographic data, many of which were adopted.
Bonaparte described around 230 aquatic taxa and is honoured in the name of a genus of fishes, Bonapartia, and in the names of a number of species under bonaparte, and bonaparti(i).

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