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# AQUATICAL•LATIN

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

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## Posts

- [New on AQUATICAL•LATIN - Index of Common Names](https://aquaticallatin.info/new-on-aquatical•latin-index-of-common-names) - Just added: an index to the common names of the fishes featured in AQUATICAL•LATIN Volume 1: Reef Fishes. Includes a free download of the index. AQUATICAL•LATIN Vol 1 - Index of Common Names
- [AQUATICAL•LATIN featured in Practical Fishkeeping April 2018](https://aquaticallatin.info/aquatical•latin-featured-in-practical-fishkeeping-april-2018) - News – AQUATICAL•LATIN, the book, featured in the April edition of Practical Fishkeeping magazine. Many thanks to Nathan Hill for the review below. Practical Fishkeeping is the UK's Number 1 fishkeeping magazine.
- [AQUATICAL•LATIN featured in DIVER magazine Feb 2018](https://aquaticallatin.info/aquatical•latin-featured-in-diver-magazine-feb-2018) - News - AQUATICAL•LATIN, the book, featured in the February edition of Diver magazine. Here are a couple of quotes from the Diver magazine review: "Hayes is no dry academic, and has a very pleasant style. His introductory chapters are genuinely interesting if you don’t know much about marine-life classification systems” “...well researched and interesting…” You
- [Book Launch featured on Lichfield Live](https://aquaticallatin.info/book-launch-featured-on-lichfield-live) - Lichfield Live, the online news service for Lichfield, has been good enough to feature a story about the upcoming book launch for AQUATICAL•LATIN. Click here for details of the book launch.
- [AQUATICAL•LATIN official book launch.](https://aquaticallatin.info/aquatical•latin-official-book-launch) - We're pleased to announce that we're throwing an official book launch party for AQUATICAL•LATIN. We're especially proud that the launch party will take place at a prestigious literary venue, the Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum in Lichfield (Breadmarket Street, Lichfield, WS13 6LG) All are welcome to come along and meet the author and have a slice
- [AQUATICAL•LATIN - the Book!](https://aquaticallatin.info/aquatical•latin-the-book) - Available now - the first AQUATICAL•LATIN book: AQUATICAL•LATIN Latin for Aquarists An Etymology of Tropical Marine Reef Species. by T. M. Hayes This first volume takes a look at the etymology, that's the meaning behind the names, of around 950 species of the most common tropical marine fishes found in the aquatic hobby. In addition
- [AQUATICAL•LATIN featured in pbwnews](https://aquaticallatin.info/aquatical•latin-featured-in-pbwnews) - News - AQUATICAL•LATIN the book featured in the November edition of pbwnews. pbwnews is a British print magazine aimed at the UK pet trade.
- [Two new species of tropical reef fishes.](https://aquaticallatin.info/two-new-species-of-tropical-reef-fishes) - Aquatic scientific names in the news … Two new species of tropical reef fishes have been recently described in the journal, Zootaxa.The first is a new species of Dottyback from Indonesia, Pseudochromis stellatus Pseudochromis stellatus, Batu Hitam, Raja Ampat Islands, Indonesia. Image: M.V. Erdmann. The second species is an anthiadine serranid, or 'Anthias' from the
- [Ocean sunfish](https://aquaticallatin.info/ocean-sunfish) - Aquatic scientific names in the news … An Ocean sunfish was found on New Year's Day 2016 washed up on Whitstable beach (Canterbury Times 4th Jan). A subtropical species with a global distribution, they are by no means rare in British waters but are most often encountered around the southern and western coasts of the
- [AQUATICAL•LATIN featured on Reefs.com](https://aquaticallatin.info/aquatical•latin-featured-on-reefs-com) - Many thanks to Reefs.com for featuring both the AQUATICAL•LATIN website and the new AQUATICAL•LATIN book. To see more go to: Reefs.com
- [New Species of Ocean Sunfish](https://aquaticallatin.info/new-species-of-ocean-sunfish) - Aquatic scientific names in the news … A new species of Ocean sunfish has been described in the paper, Hiding in broad daylight: molecular and morphological data reveal a new ocean sunfish species (Tetraodontiformes: Molidae) that has eluded recognition, published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. Marianne Nyegaard with a beached hoodwinker sunfish. Image:
- [Headstanders](https://aquaticallatin.info/headstanders) - Aquatic scientific names in the news … Two new species of fish, one from the Orinoco river drainage the other from the Xingu river of Brazil, have been described by a team of scientists from Oregon State and Brazil in a paper published in the journal Neotropical Ichthyology. The species of fish from the Orinoco
- [Northern bottlenose whale](https://aquaticallatin.info/northern-bottlenose-whale) - Aquatic scientific names in the news … The Grant Zoology Museum in London has announced a Whale Weekender this weekend (8th - 9th July). Members of the public are invited to come along and help clean the bones of a Northern bottlenose whale and then assist in reassembling the skeleton. The “great fish” as it
- [Starlet anemone](https://aquaticallatin.info/starlet-anemone) - Aquatic scientific names in the news … A small sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis, has recently featured in a number of news stories regarding the future possibility of regenerating human heart tissue. In a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists from the University of Florida have found genes known
- [Pyrosomes](https://aquaticallatin.info/pyrosomes) - Aquatic scientific names in the news … Millions of glowing sea creatures called pyrosomes have started to “bloom” off the coast of the Pacific Northwest of the US and Canada. The creatures are filling up fishing nets, clogging hooks and research gear and befuddling scientists who have no idea why populations of the tube-like organisms
- [Coccolithophore](https://aquaticallatin.info/coccolithophore) - Aquatic scientific names in the news … The coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi A sudden change in the colour of the Bosphorus Strait has been reported from Istanbul, Turkey. The usually blue waters of the Bosphorus have been transformed to a milky turquoise since the weekend reportedly alarming some residents. This colour change is the result of
- [Ember Goby](https://aquaticallatin.info/ember-goby) - Aquatic scientific names in the news … 10th June 2017 The Ember Goby This new species, subsequently described as Palatogobius incendius, was observed and collected over the course of several submersible dives off the coasts of Curaçao and Dominica between 2013 and 2016 as part of the DROP project (see below). During this same time
- [The Faceless Cusk](https://aquaticallatin.info/the-faceless-cusk) - Aquatic scientific names in the news … 2nd June 2017 The Faceless Cusk During the course of a new deep-sea research voyage called Sampling the Abyss a fish not seen since the Challenger expedition of 1872–76 has been collected. A species of Cusk-eel that has been described as faceless owing to its lack of visible
- [ESF Top 10 New Species list 2017](https://aquaticallatin.info/esf-top-10-new-species-list-2017) - Aquatic scientific names in the news … A species of freshwater stingray, Potamotrygon rex, a swimming centipede Scolopendra cataracta, and a marine worm Xenoturbella churro, all feature in this year’s ESF Top 10 New Species list. The list, an annual event established in 2008, is compiled by ESF’s International Institute for Species Exploration and comprises
- [The Vaquita](https://aquaticallatin.info/the-vaquita) - Aquatic scientific names in the news … 17th May 2017 The Vaquita The rarest marine mammal in the world, Phocoena sinus, the Vaquita is in grave danger of extinction as a result of illegal fishing. Vaquita. Image: Paula Olson (NOAA) The Vaquita, a 1.4 metre long porpoise, is in danger as a side effect of
- [Land crab migration](https://aquaticallatin.info/land-crab-migration) - Aquatic scientific names in the news … 3rd May 2017 Land crab migration It's that time of the year when land crab migrations tend to be in the news. The most recent reports are on the migration of red, yellow, and black land crabs in Cuba marching from the inland forests down to the sea
- [New Species of Clingfish](https://aquaticallatin.info/new-species-of-clingfish) - Aquatic scientific names in the news … 25th April 2017 The Duckbilled Clingfish A new species of clingfish has been described in the journal Copeia. Clingfishes are fishes belonging to the family Gobiesocidae. They possess modified pelvic fins that form a suction disc which enables them to cling to objects such as rocks, algae, and
- [Pink Floyd pistol shrimp](https://aquaticallatin.info/pink-floyd-pistol-shrimp) - Aquatic scientific names in the news … 13th April 2017 Pink Floyd pistol shrimp A new species of pistol shrimp, a small, burrowing crustacean with one oversize claw has been described in the journal Zootaxa. Pistol shrimps, also known as snapping shrimps, possess a disproportionately large claw, up to half the shrimp's body in length
- [Scientific Terms: Ologies and Ologists](https://aquaticallatin.info/scientific-terms-ologies-and-ologists) - Additions to the Lexicon ... New category added to the Lexicon - Scientific Terms: Ologies and Ologists It is not just scientific names that are derived from Latin and Greek, in the aquatic sciences you’ll frequently encounter words ending in -ology (plural -ologies) and -ologist, these are words that describe a particular academic discipline
- [First Ever Cave-fish Discovered in Europe](https://aquaticallatin.info/first-ever-cave-fish-discovered-in-europe) - Aquatic scientific names in the news … 5 th April 2017 The discovery of the first cave-fishes to be found in Europe has been announced in a paper published in Current Biology. The fish, known for the time being simply as “barbatula” or “cave loach”, was discovered in 2015 by Joachim Kreiselmaier, an amateur cave
- [AQUATICAL•LATIN – the online etymology](https://aquaticallatin.info/aquatical•latin-the-online-etymology) - AQUATICAL•LATIN – the online etymology, is a new addition to AQUATICAL•LATIN It is an online alphabetical dictionary comprising genus and species names of aquatic, semi-aquatic, and aquatic associated species. This is a work in progress and it will take some time before it becomes anywhere near comprehensive, which, given the shear number of aquatic species
- [Blackline fangblenny](https://aquaticallatin.info/blackline-fangblenny) - Aquatic scientific names in the news … 31 March 2017 A report in the March 30 issue of Current Biology indicates that Fangblenny fish venom most likely causes a sudden drop in blood pressure in would-be predators that have been bitten by blennies. The Blackline fangblenny is a species of Blenny belonging to the Family
- [Invasive aquatic species](https://aquaticallatin.info/invasive-aquatic-species) - Aquatic scientific names in the news … 29th March. Invasive Species Week As 27 March - 2 April is Invasive Species Week 2017 in the UK I thought I’d take a look at the etymology of a few of the more important aquatic invasive species. Invasive species week is an initiative of the Non-native Species
- [Haddock](https://aquaticallatin.info/haddock) - Aquatic scientific names in the news … Haddock Haddock featured in the media on the 16th March with various stories indicating that the fish, a popular choice in the UK, was “being taken off the menu” owing to lack of sustainability (see: Guardian). As a result of a change in scientific advice the Marine Conservation
- [Bowhead whale](https://aquaticallatin.info/bowhead-whale) - Aquatic scientific names in the news … Bowhead whale 29th May - A Bowhead whale was sighted off Carlingford Lough, Ireland. This is a rare sighting of an Arctic species, more than a thousand miles outside of its natural range and reportedly the first ever to be spotted in Irish waters; the whale was described
- [ESF Top 10 New Species list 2016](https://aquaticallatin.info/esf-top-10-new-species-list-2016) - Aquatic scientific names in the news … Two species of fish, an Anglerfish, Lasiognathus dinema, and a Seadragon, Phyllopteryx dewysea, feature in this year's ESF Top 10 New Species list. The list, an annual event established in 2008, is compiled by ESF's International Institute for Species Exploration and comprises the Top 10 species from among the
- [Minke whale](https://aquaticallatin.info/minke-whale) - Aquatic scientific names in the news … Minke whale 8th May - A Minke whale has washed up on the beach near Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire, England, in the vicinity of the Sea View car park. The whale, variously described as being 4 or 5 metres long and estimated to weigh up to two tonnes, is the
- [Dwarf sperm whale](https://aquaticallatin.info/dwarf-sperm-whale) - Aquatic scientific names in the news … Dwarf sperm whale 1st May - A 2.42-metre whale, believed to be a rare dwarf sperm whale, died after being stranded at Lake Tyers beach, Victoria, Australia, a species never previously seen in the state. Image: Victorian water, environment, land and planning department. The Dwarf sperm whale is
- [Megamouth shark](https://aquaticallatin.info/megamouth-shark) - Aquatic scientific names in the news … Megamouth shark 15th April - a Megamouth shark has been reported caught in a fishing net about three miles from the Owase Port in Mie Prefecture, Japan. Photo showing the size of the mouth. An extremely rare species of deepwater shark, it is the smallest of the three
- [Basking shark](https://aquaticallatin.info/basking-shark) - Aquatic scientific names in the news … Basking shark The first Basking shark sighting of 2016 has been reported off Cornwall. It was photographed in Mount's Bay on Wednesday 6th July during a wildlife cruise. Image: Greg Skomal / NOAA Fisheries Service The Basking shark is the second largest shark after the Whale shark and
- [Indian dancing frog](https://aquaticallatin.info/indian-dancing-frog) - Aquatic scientific names in the news … Indian dancing frog Tadpoles of the Indian dancing frog have been seen for the first time. Although scientists have long known about the adult frogs and their graceful displays, or dances, which lure mates and ward off rival males, the juveniles of the species had never been seen
- [Hermit crab](https://aquaticallatin.info/hermit-crab) - Aquatic scientific names in the news … Hermit crab A rare type of hermit crab has been rediscovered at a beach in Falmouth after a 30 year absence. The find at Castle Beach was made during a survey run by the Cornwall Wildlife Trust. The tiny crab, sometimes referred to as the Mediterranean hermit crab,
- [Ragfish](https://aquaticallatin.info/ragfish) - Aquatic scientific names in the news … Ragfish A an adult female Ragfish measuring around 1.6 metres in length was found on the 7th of January washed ashore near the dock in Gustavus in Southeast Alaska (Alaska Dispatch News 7th Jan.). Images: Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve/Facebook A seldom seen deepwater fish whose
- [Fishing spider](https://aquaticallatin.info/fishing-spider) - Aquatic scientific names in the news … Fishing spider The discovery of a new species of Fishing spider was announced at the ninth annual World Science Festival, Brisbane, Australia (9-13 March 2016). Fishing spiders are semi-aquatic spiders that hunt by waiting at the edge of a pool or stream, resting six of their eight legs
- [Words relating to markings](https://aquaticallatin.info/words-relating-to-markings) - Additions to the Lexicon ... New category added to the Lexicon - Words relating to markings. Along with terms relating to colour those relating to markings or pattern are frequently encountered in the make-up of the scientific names of aquatic animals, particularly in those names referring to fishes. If you have a question about the
- [Suffixes](https://aquaticallatin.info/suffixes) - Additions to the Lexicon ... New category added to the Lexicon - Suffixes. A suffix is an affix which is placed at the end of a compound word modifying the meaning of the word as a whole or indicating grammatical properties such as case, gender, or number. If you have a question about the scientific
- [Sperm whale](https://aquaticallatin.info/sperm-whale) - Aquatic scientific names in the news … Sperm whale An unfortunate series of Sperm whale strandings occurred over the past weekend with one whale coming ashore at Hunstanton beach, Norfolk, and dying on Friday, a further three coming ashore at Skegness over Saturday night and Sunday morning, and one on Monday at Wainfleet in Lincolnshire,
- [Great white shark](https://aquaticallatin.info/great-white-shark) - Aquatic scientific names in the news … Great white shark A Great white shark estimated to be around 7m in length was spotted about 200m offshore at Marino Rocks, near Adelaide, Australia on Sunday 17th Jan. Local newspaper, The Advertiser, reported that a Westpac Lifesaver Rescue helicopter tried to herd the shark out to sea
- [Eponyms](https://aquaticallatin.info/eponyms) - Additions to the Lexicon ... New category added to the Lexicon - Eponyms. An eponym, or eponymous epithet, is where a species is named after a person, usually a fellow scientist, a colleague, a friend, a family member, or a dignitary. This new category is a work in progress and is initially concentrating on those
- [Giant squid](https://aquaticallatin.info/giant-squid) - Aquatic scientific names in the news … A giant squid surfaced in Toyama Bay harbour (300km west of Tokyo) on Christmas eve, 2015. A species that is rarely observed at the surface, this animal was a juvenile of around three and half metres in length, most likely in poor health and unlikely to survive. Video

## Pages

- [Welcome to AQUATICAL•LATIN](https://aquaticallatin.info/) - AQUATICAL•LATIN is an ongoing project investigating the etymology of the scientific names applied to aquatic species, particularly animals such as fishes and invertebrates. This site is intended as a resource for aquarists, naturalists, anglers, academics, divers, and anyone else curious about the meaning behind the names. In addition to the website there is a book:
- [About the Author](https://aquaticallatin.info/about-the-author) - T M Hayes is a retired aquarist and marine aquarium writer. He is the author of more than 200 magazine articles on the various aspects of reef aquariums and has at one time or another written for virtually every major English-speaking aquarium magazine in the UK and the US and also had articles published in
- [AQUATICAL•LATIN Vol 1 - Index of Common Names](https://aquaticallatin.info/aquatical-latin-the-book/aquatical-latin-vol-1-index-of-common-names) - As an aid to those unfamiliar with the scientific names of the fishes covered in AQUATICAL•LATIN Volume 1: Reef Fishes, I've prepared an addendum to the book in the form of an index of common names. You can download a pdf of the index at the same size as the book here: Aquatical Latin Vol
- [AQUATICAL•LATIN - the Book](https://aquaticallatin.info/aquatical-latin-the-book) - AQUATICAL•LATIN Latin for Aquarists An Etymology of Tropical Marine Reef Species. by T. M. Hayes This first volume takes a look at the etymology, that's the meaning behind the names, of around 950 species of the most common tropical marine fishes found in the aquatic hobby. In addition to being an etymological dictionary of species
- [AQUATICAL•LATIN - the online etymology](https://aquaticallatin.info/aquatical•latin-online-etymology) - The etymologies listed here are generally derived from the ones that I have generated for the AQUATICAL•LATIN, “Aquatic scientific names in the news …” section and from elsewhere on the site. This is a work in progress and will grow over time. Derivation of the etymology In the first instance the scientific name has been
- [Site Map](https://aquaticallatin.info/site-map)
- [Scientific Terms](https://aquaticallatin.info/latin-greek-english-lexicon/scientific-terms) - Ologies and Ologists (or, “There’s an ology for that …) In the aquatic sciences you’ll frequently encounter words ending in -ology (plural -ologies) and -ologist, these are words that describe a particular academic discipline or field of knowledge (an ology) or a student or expert in that particular discipline (an ologist). As with the scientific
- [Eponyms](https://aquaticallatin.info/latin-greek-english-lexicon/eponyms) - An eponym, or eponymous epithet, is where a species is named after a person; this may be a renowned zoologist, in the case of fishes usually an ichthyologist, a colleague, a friend, a family member, or a dignitary. Most often, but not always, this is based on a surname. The name is 'Latinized' giving it
- [Geographical epithets](https://aquaticallatin.info/latin-greek-english-lexicon/geographical-epithets) - Geographical epithets, also known as toponyms, may indicate the general area where a species may be found, the site of its first discovery, or the location where the type specimen was collected but they do not necessarily reflect its geographical distribution. The name is 'Latinized' giving it the same gender, case, and tense as the
- [Suffixes](https://aquaticallatin.info/latin-greek-english-lexicon/suffixes) - A suffix is an affix which is placed at the end of a compound word modifying the meaning of the word as a whole or indicating grammatical properties such as case, gender, or number. The most common suffixes are the Latin word endings: -us, -a, and -um, representing gender – masculine, feminine, and neuter. The
- [Words relating to markings](https://aquaticallatin.info/latin-greek-english-lexicon/words-relating-to-markings) - Along with terms relating to colour those relating to markings or pattern are frequently encountered in the make-up of the scientific names of aquatic animals, this is particularly the case in those names referring to fishes. Lines and stripes Spots and blotches
- [Spots and blotches](https://aquaticallatin.info/latin-greek-english-lexicon/words-relating-to-markings/spots-and-blotches) - Spots, blotches, rings, and ocelli are prominent markings used in the identification of species, especially fishes, and frequently feature in the composition of scientific names of aquatic animals. These are not rigorously defined terms in ichthyology, different authors appear to have preferences for particular Latin and Greek words leading to a variation in usage. As
- [Latin & Greek - English Lexicon.](https://aquaticallatin.info/latin-greek-english-lexicon) - The Lexicon, is a work in progress, offering a generalised guide to the meaning of the Latin and Greek words used in the formation of the compound words used in the construction of scientific names. It is subject to continuous updates, additions, and modifications. Contents An introduction to the ancient Greek alphabet. Although scientific names
- [Lines and stripes](https://aquaticallatin.info/latin-greek-english-lexicon/words-relating-to-markings/lines-and-stripes) - Lines, stripes, bars, and bands are prominent characteristics used in the identification of species, especially fishes, and are a frequent component in the make-up of scientific names of aquatic animals. Although ichthyology has general definitions regarding terms such as band, bar, stripe, and line, these can sometimes appear confusing; similarly the Latin and Greek words
- [Colour terms.](https://aquaticallatin.info/latin-greek-english-lexicon/colour-terms) - Terms relating to colour are frequently encountered in the make-up of the scientific names of aquatic animals, particularly in those names referring to fishes. General colour terms. Red. Yellow, Orange, and Gold. Green, Blue, Violet, and Purple. Black, Brown, and "Dark". White and Silver.
- [Words relating to number or quantity.](https://aquaticallatin.info/latin-greek-english-lexicon/words-relating-to-number-or-quantity)
- [An introduction to the ancient Greek alphabet.](https://aquaticallatin.info/latin-greek-english-lexicon/a-simplified-introduction-to-the-ancient-greek-alphabet) - The ancient Greek alphabet consists of 24 letters, many of which are unfamiliar to most people today, although a few may be recognised from mathematical notation. The following table is intended to help familiarise you with the Greek words used in the Lexicon. Uppercase Lowercase Name English equivalent Pronunciation Α α alpha, αλφα a as
- [This Day In History](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history) - This Day In History can be found in the sidebar to the right; it features either brief biographies commemorating ichthyologists, marine biologists, zoologists, taxonomists, naturalists, aquarists, etc. (usually) born on this day in history or facts pertaining to events of historical significance to aquatic science.

## Historic Events

- [1705-02-22](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/02-22-1705) - Peter Artedi (1705 - 1735) was born on this day. He was a Swedish naturalist and is often referred to as the, father of Ichthyology. Peter Artedi and Linnaeus were best friends during their studies in Uppsala, both interested in plants and animals they divided the organisms between them so as not to compete, Linnaeus
- [1768-08-26](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/08-26-1768) - The first of Cook's voyages of discovery departed from Plymouth on this day. The main purpose of the voyage, initially instigated by the Royal Society, was to observe the 1769 transit of Venus across the sun to enable the measurement of the distance from the Earth to the Sun; the Admiralty elected to combine the
- [1912-12-06](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/12-06-1912) - Johann Wilhelm Haacke (1855 – 1912) died on this day. He was a German zoologist known for research into oviparity in monotremes such as the Platypus, and studies involving the morphology of jellyfish and corals. Studied under Haeckel at the University of Jena. Haacke emigrated to New Zealand (1881) moved to Australia the following year
- [1903-08-31](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/08-31-1903) - Helen Battle (1903 – 1994) was born on this day. She was a Canadian ichthyologist and teacher. Battle was the first woman in Canada to earn a PhD in Marine Biology. She was associated with the University of Western Ontario throughout her career (1929 – 1967). In addition to being a highly regarded teacher she
- [1859-08-28](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/08-28-1859) - Émil Goeldi (1859 – 1917) was born on this day. He was a Swiss zoologist who studied under Haeckel. Goeldi was invited to head the zoology section of the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1884 – 90). Director of Pará Museum of Natural History and Ethnography (1894 – 1905) which was later renamed
- [1937-08-27](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/08-27-1937) - Walter Rothschild (1868 – 1937) died on this day. He was a British zoologist and a member of the Rothschild banking family. After studying zoology at Cambridge he left the family business and established a zoological museum. Rothschild travelled and collected in Europe and North Africa and employed others to collect for him elsewhere; his
- [1775-08-22](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/08-22-1775) - François Péron (1775 – 1810) was born on this day. He was a French naturalist, a participant in the Baudin expedition, featuring the ships Le Géographe and Le Naturaliste, (1800 – 1803) to map the coast of New Holland (now Australia). He joined the crew as a trainee zoologist but rose to prominence as the
- [1876-08-20](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/08-20-1876) - Marie Lebour (1876 – 1971) was born on this day. She was a British marine biologist known for her work on the larval stages of decapods. Lebour was a demonstrator (1906 – 1909) then assistant lecturer (1909 – 1915) in the University of Leeds Department of Zoology. Her research career took place at the Marine
- [1841-08-18](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/08-18-1841) - Louis de Freycinet (1779 – 1841) died on this day. He was a French navigator involved in two important voyages of discovery. Freycinet was a participant in the Baudin expedition (1800 – 1803), initially consisting of the ships Le Géographe and Le Naturaliste, to map the coast of New Holland (now Australia), he was appointed
- [1910-08-17](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/08-17-1910) - Georg Scheer (1910 – 2004) was born on this day. He was a German coral specialist, initially an electrical engineer who worked with von Braun developing rockets during WW2. Scheer took part in two of the Hans Hass Xarifa expeditions during the early 1950s. He published on the corals of the Maldives, Nicobar Islands, and
- [1867-08-14](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/08-14-1867) - John Otterbein Snyder (1867 – 1943) was born on this day. He was a US ichthyologist, student, later colleague of Jordan, associated with Stanford throughout his career. Instructor in Zoology at Stanford (1899 – 1943). Snyder accompanied Jordan on field trips to Mexico, Japan, and Hawaii, participated in several expeditions aboard the USS Albatross in
- [1928-08-13](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/08-13-1928) - Emily Arnesen (1867 – 1928) died on this day. She was a Norwegian zoologist known for her work on sponges (likely the first Norwegian to study sponges), and the second Norwegian woman to receive a doctoral degree. Arnesen attended the Royal Frederick University, Kristiania, studying zoology under Johan Hjort. She taught at various schools while
- [1925-08-11](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/08-11-1925) - James Douglas Ogilby (1853 – 1925) died on this day. He was an Irish born Australian ichthyologist, his research, was described by David Starr Jordan as “… of a very high order”. From 1874-76 he contributed notes on Irish fishes and birds to the Zoologist (London). He worked for the British Museum and spent some
- [1855-08-10](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/08-10-1855) - Hans Jacob Hansen (1855 – 1936) was born on this day. He was a Danish zoologist specialising in arthropods, perhaps the greatest name in Danish carcinology. Hansen was a member of the Entomological Department of the Zoological Museum of Copenhagen, participated in the Danish Ingolf Expedition (1895), and worked on materials from many of the
- [1794-08-09](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/08-09-1794) - Achille Valenciennes (1794 – 1865) was born on this day. He was a French zoologist specializing in ichthyology who studied under Cuvier. Valenciennes worked with Cuvier on the twenty-two volume Histoire Naturelle des Poissons (1828 – 1848) continuing the work alone after the death of Cuvier in 1832. This was one of the most ambitious
- [1748-08-08](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/08-08-1748) - Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748 – 1804) was born on this day. He was a German naturalist, herpetologist, and malacologist, who belonged to a well known family of naturalists and scientists. Gmelin is best remembered as publisher of the 13th edition of Systema Naturae by Carl Linnaeus (1788 – 1789). Gmelin described a wide range of
- [1828-08-07](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/08-07-1828) - Pierre Carbonnier (1828 – 1883) was born on this day. He was a French aquarist, founder of one of the oldest aquarium supply companies in Paris (1850). Carbonnier started to breed exotic aquarium fishes (1869) and was the first in Europe to breed the Paradise fish (Macropodus opercularis) having received 12 males and 5 females
- [1799-08-06](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/08-06-1799) - Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723 – 1799) died on this day. He was a German naturalist and doctor, generally considered to be the most important ichthyologist of the 18th century. On becoming a M.D. (1747) he settled in Berlin, where he established himself as a physician and began to collect natural history objects. Bloch is best
- [1935-08-05](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/08-05-1935) - Johannes Thiele (1860 – 1935) died on this day. He was a German zoologist who published on sponges and crustaceans but is best known as a malacologist. Curator of the malacological collection at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (1904 – 1925). Thiele is most famous for his Handbuch der Systematishen Weichtierkunde (1929 – 1935) published
- [1927-08-04](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/08-04-1927) - Thomas Whitelegge (1850 – 1927) died on this day. He was an English born Australian self-taught naturalist. Despite being brought up in deprived circumstances Whitelegge developed an interest in natural history, becoming knowledgeable on both flora and fauna. Correspondent of Darwin (1878). Whitelegge emigrated to Australia (1882). Joined the Australian Museum as a senior assistant
- [1969-08-03](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/08-03-1969) - Libbie Hyman (1888 – 1969) died on this day. She was a US zoologist regarded as one of the 20th century's most notable invertebrate biologists owing to her best known work, The Invertebrates (1940 – 1967), 6 vols. Her major interest was in the turbellarians. Published two earlier successful works, A Laboratory Manual for Elementary
- [1957-08-02](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/08-02-1957) - David G. Stead (1877 - 1957) died on this day. He was an Australian marine biologist who served in a number of government posts and was involved with the fisheries industry in Australia and in Malaya over many years. Stead was an early advocate of conservation he helped found the Wild Life Preservation Society of
- [1874-08-01](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/08-01-1874) - Francis Bertody Sumner (1874 - 1945) was born on this day. He was a US ichthyologist and zoologist, associated with Scripps for much of his career. Director of the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries Laboratory at Woods Hole (1904 - 10) and then served as Naturalist on R/V Albatross (1911). He joined the Scripps Institution of
- [1809-07-31](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/07-31-1809) - Alphone Guichenot (1809 - 1876) was born on this day. He was a French zoologist, specialising in ichthyology and herpetology, working for the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (Paris). Guichenot participated in a number of specimen collecting trips on behalf of the Muséum including an extensive biological survey of Algeria. His father, Antoine Guichenot, had been
- [1869-07-30](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/07-30-1869) - George Suckley (1830 - 1869) died on this day. He was a US physician and naturalist. Suckley was appointed assistant surgeon and naturalist to the Pacific Railroad Survey of the 47th and 49th parallels between St. Paul, Minnesota, and Fort Vancouver, Washington Territory (1853). His work included a 1,049 mile, 53-day canoe trip down the
- [1877-07-29](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/07-29-1877) - William Beebe (1877 - 1962) was born on this day. He was a US naturalist, ornithologist, and marine biologist; although much of his career was devoted to ornithology he made important contribution to the aquatic sciences and is best known for his deep-sea explorations in the Bathysphere. The series of dives off the coast of
- [1840-07-28](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/07-28-1840) - Edward Drinker Cope (1840 - 1897) was born on this day. He was a US paleontologist and ichthyologist, best known for his personal feud with paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh that led to a period of intense fossil-finding competition known as the Bone Wars. He published over 1,400 papers, and although Cope is today known as
- [1799-07-27](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/07-27-1799) - Julien Desjardins (1799 - 1840) was born on this day. He was French zoologist born on Mauritius. Desjardins studied under Cuvier in Paris (1822 - 1824). Returning to Mauritius, Desjardins was a founding member of the Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Île Maurice (1829), the first secretary of the Society and editor of the publication Rapport
- [1854-07-26](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/07-26-1854) - George Brettingham Sowerby I (1788 – 26 July 1854) died on this day (coincidently his son, George Brettingham Sowerby II (1812 - 1884), also died on 26 July). He was a British conchologist and illustrator. The second son of naturalist James Sowerby, he assisted his father in the production of illustrated works on natural history.
- [1847-07-25](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/07-25-1847) - Paul Langerhans (1847 - 1888) was born on this day. He was a German physiologist and biologist, best known for his discovery of the eponymous islets of Langerhans in the pancreas, the pancreatic cells which produce insulin. On contracting tuberculosis in 1874 Langerhans resigned from his medical duties at the University of Freiburg and moved
- [1916-07-24](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/07-24-1916) - Isabel Pérez Farfante (1916 - 2009) was born on this day. She was a Cuban zoologist (married name Canet), known for her work on penaeid shrimp. Farfante was the first Cuban woman to receive her Ph.D. from an Ivy League school. Associate Curator of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology (1946 - 48). In the
- [1953-07-23](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/07-23-1953) - Maude Jane Delap (1866 - 1953) died on this day. She was a self-taught Irish marine biologist, although she received little formal education her father encouraged her interest in zoology and biology. Maude, and her sister Constance, were prolific collectors of marine specimens from Valentia Island, collecting specimens through dredging and tow-netting, many of which
- [1916-07-22](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/07-22-1916) - Edgar Albert Smith (1847 - 1916) died on this day. He was a British zoologist, primarily a conchologist but also published on echinoderms. Smith was an Assistant Keeper of the Zoological Department of the British Museum (now Natural History Museum) (1867 - 1913), from 1871 in charge of the collection of molluscs. He studied and
- [1908-07-21](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/07-21-1908) - Max Poll (1908 - 1991) was born on this day. He was a Belgian ichthyologist, associated with the fauna of the Congo and the cichlids of Lake Tanganyika. Poll worked at the Congo Museum Belgium (now the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren) and led an expedition to survey the Congo river in 1953.
- [1922-07-20](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/07-20-1922) - Wolfgang Klausewitz (1922 - ) was born on this day. He is a German ichthyologist. Head of the fish section at the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum (1954 - 74). Klausewitz participated in the Xarifa expeditions of Hans Hass to the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean (1957, 1958), and revisited the Red
- [1774-07-19](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/07-19-1774) - Matthew Flinders (1774 - 1814) died on this day. He was an English naval officer, best known for the first circumnavigation of Australia, identifying it as a continent, and suggesting the name. Flinders made three voyages to to the southern ocean between 1791 and 1810, on his second voyage Flinders, along with, Bass confirmed Van
- [1769-07-17](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/07-17-1769) - Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius (1769 - 1857) was born on this day. Also known as Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau, he was a German naturalist and explorer, who participated as ship's doctor, marine biologist, and expedition artist on the frigate Nadezhda in the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe (1803 - 06), publishing the natural history
- [1905-07-18](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/07-18-1905) - Mary Sears (1905 - 1997) was born on this day. She was a US oceanographer and a Commander in the US Naval Reserve, associated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution throughout her career. Sears worked at Harvard University with Henry Bigelow, the founder and first director of Woods Hole and began working as a planktonologist
- [1957-07-16](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/07-16-1957) - Maurice Kottelat (1957 - ) was born on this day. He is a Swiss ichthyologist specialising in Eurasian freshwater fishes, primarily interested in loaches (Balitoridae, Nemacheilidae, etc.), Cyprinidae, and Sisoridae. Honorary Research Associate at the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, Singapore (1994). Founding editor of the journal Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters (1989), president of the
- [1818-07-15](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/07-15-1818) - Thomas Hincks (1818 - 1899) was born on this day. He was a British Unitarian minister and naturalist. Hincks was an enthusiastic amateur naturalist, when ill health forced him to resign from the ministry he devoted himself to the study of natural history, his publications include A history of the British hydroid zoophytes (1868) and
- [1797-07-14](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/07-14-1797) - James Scott Bowerbank (1797 - 1877) was born on this day. He was a British naturalist and palaeontologist, much interested in microscopy. Founding member of the Ray Society, the Royal Microscopical Society, and of the Zoological Society. Bowerbank is best known for his 4 vol. A Monograph of the British Spongidae (1864 - 82). Bowerbank
- [1880-07-13](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/07-13-1880) - William Alford Lloyd (1824 - 1880) died on this day. He was a British naturalist, the first professional aquarist, and proprietor of the first aquarium supplies business, The Aquarium Warehouse. Lloyd was inspired by Gosse's book, The Aquarium (1854), and grew his interest into a business supplying the parlour aquarium craze. As his reputation grew
- [1884-07-12](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/07-12-1884) - Ronald Winckworth (1884 - 1950) was born on this day. He was a British naturalist, who became President or Vice-President of three learned societies in the field, and who wrote on the topic of British and Indian mollusca. Amongst various teaching positions he spent a year as assistant at the Marine Biological Association’s laboratory at
- [1940-07-09](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/07-09-1940) - Ida Shepard Oldroyd (1856 - 1940) died on this day. She was a US conchologist, married to fellow shell collector Tom Oldroyd; they collected extensively in southern California and amassed a large collection. Oldroyd was recruited by the California Academy of Sciences to classify the shell collection of Henry Hemphill in preparation for the collection's
- [1905-06-11](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/06-11-1905) - Kikutaro Baba (1905 - 2001) was born on this day. He was a Japanese malacologist, specialising in opistobranchs (sea slugs and bubble snails). Professor of Biology at Osaka Kyoiku University from 1949 to 1971. Amongst other publications Baba collaborated with the Emperor of Japan (Hirohito) on two major works, The Opisthobranchia of Sagami Bay (1949)
- [1819-07-10](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/07-10-1819) - Pieter Bleeker (1819 - 1878) was born on this day. He was a Dutch ichthyologist and physician, one of the greatest ichthyologists of all time. Bleeker was a medical officer in the East Indian Army, stationed for most of his career in Batavia (now Jakarta), in the Dutch East Indies. Bleeker’s work represents the most
- [1974-07-08](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/07-08-1974) - Elizabeth Joan Batham (1917 - 1974) disappeared on this day. She was a New Zealand marine biologist, mostly associated with the University of Otago. Batham did pioneering experimental work on sea anemones studying under Carl Pantin at both the University of Cambridge and the Plymouth laboratory of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
- [1813-07-07](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/07-07-1813) - Johann Cesar VI. Godeffroy (1813 - 1885) was born on this day. He was a German merchant and collector of natural history objects, founder of Museum Godeffroy. Beginning as a personal natural history cabinet, a collection of birds, shells, fish and other animals as well as cultural objects from localities visited by the Godeffroy ships,
- [1781-07-06](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/07-06-1781) - Stamford Raffles (1781 - 1826) was born on this day. He was a British statesman and amateur naturalist, best known for founding Singapore and being co-founder of the Zoological Society of London (1826), the world's first scientific zoo. Raffles was fascinated by the diversity of animals and plants of the East Indies, he named, studied
- [1805-06-05](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/06-05-1805) - Robert FitzRoy (1805 - 1865) was born on this day. He was a British naval officer and scientist, best known as captain of HMS Beagle during Darwin's famous voyage and as a pioneer of meteorology. Darwin's appointment as naturalist was as a result of FitzRoy's desire to have a gentleman companion for the voyage to
- [1873-07-04](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/07-04-1873) - Johann Jakob Kaup (1803 - 1873) died on this day. He was a German naturalist working in ichthyology and herpetology. Correspondent with many important biologists of his time including Agassiz, Bonaparte, Cuvier, and Owen. Engaged by Gray to undertake revisions at the British Museum resulting in Catalogue of Apodal fish (eels) in the Collection of
- [1835-07-03](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/07-03-1835) - Axel Teodor von Goës (1835 - 1897) was born on this day. He was a Swedish physician and naturalist. Goes was naturalist on the Otto Torell expedition to Svalbard in (1861), explored the marine fauna around the Norwegian Finnmark (1861), and with the support of the Academy of Sciences, the fauna off the west coast
- [1961-07-02](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/07-02-1961) - Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961) died on this day. He was a US novelist known for his interest in sport fishing. In 1934 Hemingway was approached by Charles Cadwalader, Managing Director of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, requesting his assistance in a research project in Cuban waters. Hemingway's skills as a fisherman had been
- [1845-07-01](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/07-01-1845) - James Cosmo Melvill (1845 - 1929) was born on this day. He was a British a naturalist interested in both botany and malacology, owner of a large British shell cabinet. Melvill started collecting at age eight, when his aunt gave him a sea shell collection from Mauritius and continued collecting not only shells, but also
- [1724-06-30](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/06-30-1724) - Johann Julius Walbaum (1724 - 1799) was born on this day. He was a German physician and naturalist, owner of a cabinet of natural objects which formed the basis of the Naturhistorische Museum in Lübeck. Walbaum's major contribution to ichthyology, was the Petri Artedi renovati, a work conceived to present all genera and species of
- [1895-06-29](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/06-29-1895) - Thomas Henry Huxley (1825 - 1895) died on this day. He was British biologist, best known today for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, earning from his debate with Wilberforce the sobriquet, "Darwin's Bulldog". Huxley took the position of physician-naturalist aboard HMS Rattlesnake on an expedition surveying New Guinea and Australia (1846 –
- [1924-06-28](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/06-28-1924) - Conrad Limbaugh (1924 - 1960) was born on this day. He was a US marine biologist and diver. With access to one of the first aqualungs in the US (UCLA 1949) Limbaugh was a pioneer of scientific diving. He was one of the earliest proponents to combine scuba diving with scientific research, along with underwater
- [1787-06-27](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/06-27-1787) - Thomas Say (1787 - 1834) was born on this day. He was a US naturalist, described as being the father of both American entomology and American conchology. Say was a self-taught naturalist who, amongst others, helped found the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1812), the oldest natural science research institution and museum in the
- [1863-06-26](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/06-26-1863) - Jean Paul Louis Pelseneer (1863 - 1945) was born on this day. He was a Belgian chemistry teacher and keen amateur malacologist, although he never taught at university level he was recognised both in Belgium and abroad as one of the most eminent zoologists of his time. Pelseneer joined the Belgian Malacological Societ at the
- [1859-06-25](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/06-25-1859) - Sydney J. Hickson (1859 - 1940) was born on this day. He was a British zoologist, best known for his work on soft corals. Hickson undertook an expedition to northern Celebes (now Sulawesi) part of the Malay archipelago (1885 - 86) where he made a considerable collection of specimens, much of which is now held
- [1797-06-24](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/06-24-1797) - Johan Coenraad van Hasselt (1797 - 1823) was born on this day. He was a Dutch biologist and physician, graduated University of Groningen (1820). Along with his friend Heinrich Kuhl he had a great interest in natural history, together they made various excursions around Europe visiting natural history museums, including Paris (late 1819), where they
- [1895-06-23](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/06-23-1895) - William Crawford Williamson (1816 - 1895) died on this day. He was an English naturalist and palaeobotanist. Williamson's zoological work included investigations into the development of the teeth and bones of fishes (1842 - 1851), an important monograph on the recent Foraminifera for the Ray Society in 1857, and a monograph on the Rotifera (1861).
- [1822-06-22](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/06-22-1822) - William Thompson (1822 - 1879) was born on this day. He was an English naturalist and pioneer of underwater photography, a collector of marine flora and fauna who supplied both Philip Gosse and the Zoological Society of London. Thompson is credited with taking the first ever underwater photograph in 1856; this was achieved by building
- [1884-06-21](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/06-21-1884) - Masamitsu Ōshima (1884 - 1965) was born on this day. He was a Japanese ichthyologist and herpetologist. Studied under Jordan at Stanford University (1919). Noted for his studies of the fish species of Taiwan, publications include Contributions to the study of the fresh water fishes of the island of Formosa, and Notes on Freshwater Fishes
- [1885-06-20](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/06-20-1885) - Allan Riverstone McCulloch (1885 - 1925) was born on this day. He was an Australian ichthyologist associated with the Australian Museum throughout his career, having started off as a volunteer at the age of 13. He produced over 100 publications, including the reports of fishes collected by the F.I.S. Endeavour off New South Wales (1910),
- [1883-06-19](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/06-19-1883) - Jean-Jacques Dussumier (1792 - 1883) died on this day. He was a French ship owner and merchant, an enthusiastic collector of natural history objects. Dussumier made at least eleven commercial voyages between 1816 - 1840 on his own vessels the Buffon and the Georges Cuvier, to the Indian Ocean and as far as the China
- [1753-06-18](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/06-18-1753) - George Montagu (1753 - 1815) was born on this day. He was an English army officer and naturalist, known for his work in the identification of British fauna but mainly remember for ornithology. Montagu had an interest in marine and freshwater natural history and published his Testacea Britannica, a History of British Marine, Land and
- [1861-06-17](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/06-17-1861) - Isao Ijima (1861-1921) was born on this day. He was a Japanese zoologist, professor at Tokyo Imperial University (1885 - 1921), active in many fields including Turbellarians (flat worms) and sponges. 2nd director of the Misaki Marine Biological Station, Japan (1904 - 1921). Considered to be the father of parasitology in Japan. Publications on sponges
- [1926-06-16](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/06-16-1926) - Gerlof Mees (1926 - 2013) was born on this day. He was a Dutch ichthyologist and ornithologist, Curator of Vertebrates at the Western Australian Museum from 1958 to 1963. Mees was the first to describe Lepidogalaxias salamandroides Mees, 1961, the Salamander fish, an unusual Australian freshwater species with the ability to survive dry seasons by
- [1876-06-15](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/06-15-1876) - Nelson Annandale (1876 - 1924) was born on this day. He was a Scottish zoologist, interested in sponges, molluscs, and cnidarians. Annandale participated in the the Skeat expedition to the Malay archipelago (1899-1900), returning with the Annandale and Robinson expedition in 1903. He joined the Indian Museum in Calcutta as Deputy Superintendent of the Natural
- [1726-06-14](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/06-14-1726) - Thomas Pennant (1726 - 1798) was born on this day. He was an English naturalist, writer, and traveller. Pennant observed that naturalists in other European countries were producing volumes cataloguing and describing the animals found in their respective territories and resolved to produce a similar work on the fauna of Britain. This resulted in British
- [1845-06-13](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/06-13-1845) - Enrico Hillyer Giglioli (1845 - 1909) was born on this day. He was an Italian zoologist and anthropologist, Director of the Royal Zoological Museum in Florence. Giglioli was naturalist aboard the Magenta (1865-68), an Italian circumnavigation of the globe that made important scientific observations in South America, and wrote up the zoology of the voyage.
- [1873-06-12](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/06-12-1873) - Jacques Pellegrin (1873 - 1944) was born on this day. He was a French zoologist. Pellegrin worked under zoologist Léon Vaillant (chair of reptiles and fish) at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle succeeding him as assistant director (1908). After a number of overseas collecting trips, he became sub-director of the museum (1937), and replaced Louis
- [1910-06-11](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/06-11-1910) - Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910 - 1997) was born on this day. He was a French oceanographer who documented the sea and its inhabitants, introducing a hitherto unseen world to a popular audience through his books and TV programs, and a pioneer of marine conservation. Cousteau is credited with being co-developer of the Aqua-lung, the first commercially
- [1869-06-10](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/06-10-1869) - Frank Mace MacFarland (1869 - 1951) was born on this day. He was a US malacologist, recognised as the leading authority on nudibranchs of his time. MacFarland was associated with Stanford University throughout his career joining the faculty less than a year after the University first opened (1892) and played a leading role in organizing
- [1903-06-09](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/06-09-1903) - Gilbert Percy Whitley (1903 - 1975) was born on this day. He was a British-born Australian ichthyologist and malacologist, Curator of Fishes at the Australian Museum in Sydney (1925 - 1964). Whitley published around 500 papers and five books on the fishes of Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and the South Pacific, and during his
- [1846-06-08](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/06-08-1846) - Thomas Frederic Cheeseman (1846 - 1923) was born on this day. He was a British born New Zealand naturalist, primarily a botanist, interested in opisthobranchs or sea slugs. In 1874 Cheeseman was appointed Secretary of the Auckland Institute and Curator of the (recently founded) Auckland Museum. He is remembered for his role in the scientific
- [1927-06-07](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/06-07-1927) - Herbert R. Axelrod (1927 - ) was born on this day. He is a US tropical fish expert and publisher. Axelrod is best known as the founder of the aquarium magazine, Tropical Fish Hobbyist, first published in September 1952, and the associated TFH Publications, publisher of pet care books. A prolific author his publications include
- [1867-06-06](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/06-06-1867) - John MacGillivray (1821 - 1867) died on this day. He was a Scottish naturalist and collector, mainly active in Australia. MacGillivray participated in three Royal Navy surveying voyages in the Pacific, he sailed as naturalist on board HMS Fly (1842-46), as botanist on HMS Rattlesnake (1846-1850), and as naturalist on HMS Herald (1852-54). His publications
- [1843-06-05](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/06-05-1843) - Samuel Garman (1843 - 1927) was born on this day. He was a US naturalist who became noted as an ichthyologist and herpetologist. Garman Joined the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard, as a special student of L. Agassiz (1872), becoming assistant director of herpetology and ichthyology (1873). Published on the fishes collected by the steamers
- [1803-06-04](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/06-04-1803) - Peter Ascanius (1723 - 1803) died on this day. He was a Norwegian naturalist and mineralogist, who had studied under Linnaeus. From 1768 - 70 he travelled along the West Norwegian coast collecting marine fauna for his 5 volume work Icones rerum naturalium, ou figures enluminées d'histoire naturelle du Nord (1767 - 1806); presumably it
- [1784-06-03](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/06-03-1784) - William Yarrell (1784 - 1856) was born on this day. He was an English naturalist, a founder member of both the Zoological Society of London and the Entomological Society of London. Yarrell became an expert on British birds and fish, writing standard reference works on both, and is best known for The History of British
- [1928-06-02](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/06-02-1928) - Victor G. Springer (1928 - ) was born on this day. He is a US ichthyologist, Senior Scientist Emeritus, National Museum of Natural History, Division of Fishes. He is a specialist in the anatomy, classification, and distribution of fishes, with a special interest in blennies and tropical marine shore fishes. His numerous publications include Revision
- [1730-06-01](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/06-01-1730) - Laurens Theodorus Gronovius (1730 - 1777) was born on this day. He was a Dutch naturalist and collector of natural history objects, mainly known for his ichthyological work. Son of botanist Jan Frederik Gronovius, one of Linnaeus' botanical patrons. Gronovius amassed one of the most extensive collection of zoological and botanical specimens of his day
- [1791-05-31](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/05-31-1791) - Emanuel Mendez da Costa (1717 - 1791) died on this day. He was an English naturalist, primarily a conchologist. Da Costa was one of the first Jewish Fellows of the Royal Society of London, employed as a clerk (1763) with responsibility for the museum, library and member's subscriptions, was discovered to be withholding members' subscription
- [1857-05-30](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/05-30-1857) - Hugo Schauinsland (1857 - 1937) was born on this day. He was a German zoologist, professor at the university of Munich(1885). Founding director of the Städtischen Sammlungen für Naturgeschichte und Ethnographie (1887), later known as the Übersee-Museum Bremen, serving as director of the museum until his retirement in 1933. In 1896-97 he conducted scientific research
- [1867-05-29](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/05-29-1867) - Richard Heymons (1867 - 1943) was born on this day. He was a German zoologist, engaged in research into pentastomids or tongue worms. Heymons coined the word Chelicerata, the name for a subphylum of the Arthropoda, containing the horseshoe crabs, sea spiders, and arachnids (including scorpions and spiders), characterized by feeding appendages that are jointed
- [1807-05-28](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/05-28-1807) - Louis Agassiz (1807 - 1873) was born on this day. He was a Swiss born naturalist with a particular interest in ichthyology who moved to the US (1847) where he became one of the most influential figures on the development of American zoology and geology. Studied under both Humboldt and Cuvier. Professor of zoology and
- [1907-05-27](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/05-27-1907) - Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964) was born on this day. She was a US marine biologist and conservationist, best known for her role in promoting the modern environmental movement. Carson was at the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries (later known as the Fish and Wildlife Service) initially working on fish population data and producing literature for
- [1799-05-26](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/05-26-1799) - Felipe Poey (1799 - 1891) was born on this day. He was a Cuban naturalist, interested in lepidoptery and ichthyology. During his time in Paris (1825-33) Poey contributed to the Cuvier, Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des poissons through illustrations and specimens he'd brought from Cuba. Founded the Cuban Museum of Natural History (1839). Professor of comparative
- [1800-05-25](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/05-25-1800) - Leonard Jenyns (1800 - 1893) was born on this day. He was an English clergyman and naturalist, the original choice for the naturalist on the second voyage of HMS Beagle but declined the offer, leaving the position to be filled by Charles Darwin. Jenyns went on to author part 4, Fish The zoology of the
- [1803-05-24](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/05-24-1803) - 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,
- [1707-05-23](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/05-23-1707) - Carl Linnaeus (1707 - 1778) was born on this day. He was a Swedish botanist and zoologist, the father of modern taxonomy, he formalised the system of naming organisms using the binomial nomenclature of scientific names. Also known as Carolus Linnæus, Carl von Linné (after his enoblement), and Carolus a Linné. His major works establishing
- [1924-05-22](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/05-22-1924) - John E. “Jack” Randall (1924 - ) was born this day. A US ichthyologist and leading authority on coral reef fishes, the first recipient of the Bleeker Award in Systematic Ichthyology (2005). Most of his career has been spent at the Bishop Museum, Hawaii, as Ichthyologist (1966 - 1984) then Senior Ichthyologist (1984 - onward).
- [1860-05-21](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/05-21-1860) - Barton Appler Bean (1860 - 1947) was born on this day. He was a US ichthyologist at the United States National Museum (1881). Bean worked in the Division of Fishes under his brother, Tarleton Hoffman Bean, the noted ichthyologist and fisheries expert. In 1890, Barton Bean became Assistant Curator of the Division and he retained
- [1838-05-20](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/05-20-1838) - George Washington Tryon (1838 - 1888) was born on this day. He was a US malacologist, conservator in the malacological section of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia (1869). Tryon can be considered to be one of the most prolific malacologists, publishing more than 1,000 articles and books, and naming more than 5,600 new
- [1903-05-19](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/05-19-1903) - 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
- [1901-05-18](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/05-18-1901) - Isabella Gordon (1901 - 1988) was born on this day. She was a Scottish marine biologist, initially working with echinoderms, later becoming an authority on crustacea. Gordon was the first woman to be appointed as a full-time permanent member of staff at the Natural History Museum, London. She was Assistant Keeper with responsibility for the
- [1796-05-17](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/05-17-1796) - Karl Heinrich Mertens (1796 - 1830) was born on this day. He was a German botanist and naturalist, son of the botanist Franz Carl Mertens. Mertens was a member of the scientific team aboard the Russian ship Senyavin under Captain Lieutenant Fedor Petrovich Litke with orders to explore the coasts of Russian America and Asia
- [1833-05-16](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/05-16-1833) - Jonas Axel Boeck (1833 - 1873) was born on this day. He was a Norwegian marine biologist and a pioneer of fisheries science. Boeck is considered to be the first Norwegian fisheries scientist, and the country's first herring researcher. He was mainly interested in amphipods and similar crustaceans, went on to research the Atlantic herring
- [1847-05-15](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/05-15-1847) - E. Ray Lankester (1847 - 1929) was born on this day. He was a British zoologist specialising in invertebrates and evolutionary biology. Studied under Thomas Huxley, later Professor of Zoology at University College London (1874-90), Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Merton College, Oxford (1891-98), and third director of the Natural History Museum (1898 - 1907).
- [1897-05-14](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/05-14-1897) - Ed Ricketts (1897 - 1948) was born on this day. He was a US marine biologist and ecologist, considered a pioneer of marine ecology. Ricketts is best known for Between Pacific Tides (1939), a pioneering study of intertidal ecology, and for his influence on writer John Steinbeck, who used Ricketts as the model for 'Doc'
- [1782-05-13](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/05-13-1782) - Daniel Solander (1733 - 1782) died on this day. He was a Swedish naturalist, considered an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. Solander traveled to England to promote the new Linnean system of classification (1760), began cataloguing the natural history collections of the British Museum (1763). A participant in Cook's first voyage of discovery (1768-71) being one
- [1665-05-12](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/05-12-1665) - Albertus Seba (1665 - 1736) was born on this day. He was a Dutch pharmacist, zoologist, and collector of natural history objects. Seba opened a pharmacy near the harbour in Amsterdam c. 1700, his collection came about when he asked sailors and ship's doctors to bring him exotic plants and animal products for use in
- [1770-04-28](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/04-28-1770) - James Cook first lands at Botany Bay on this day. Cook's journal records Cook, Banks, and Solander going ashore in a small boat, landing at what would later be called Botany Bay; midshipman Isaac Smith being the first of their party, hence first European, to set foot in eastern Australia. Cook initially use the name
- [1820-05-11](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/05-11-1820) - HMS Beagle was launched on this day. Famous for its association with Charles Darwin. One of more than a 100 Cherokee-class ships built, a brig-sloop capable of mounting 10 guns, it was converted into a three-masted barque in 1825 as an exploration and survey vessel before its first voyage. She would go on to make
- [1918-05-10](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/05-10-1918) - Diva Diniz Corrêa (1918 -1993) was born on this day. She was a Brazilian marine biologist, specialising in nemerteans. Corrêa received a Guggenheim Fellowship (1957) leading to a few years research in the US, apparently becoming enamoured enough of a certain beverage to name a nemertean species after it (Zygonemertes cocacola Corrêa, 1961). Head of
- [1874-05-09](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/05-09-1874) - Harriet Richardson (1874 - 1958) was born on this day. She was a US carcinologist, Collaborator in the Division of Marine Invertebrates (1901) at the National Museum of Natural History, later known as the Smithsonian. Richardson was a near contemporary of Mary Rathbun who, along with Theodore Gill, was likely a mentor. Her married name
- [1888-05-08](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/05-08-1888) - Edward George Boulenger (1888 - 1946) was born on this day. He was a British zoologist, son of herpetologist and ichthyologist George Albert Boulenger. Curator at the reptile house in London Zoo (1911-24), director of the new seawater and freshwater aquarium of the Zoological Society of London from its opening in 1924 to 1943. Author
- [1804-05-07](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/05-07-1804) - Auguste Adolphe Marc Reynaud (1804 - 1887) was born on this day. He was a French naval surgeon and naturalist, aboard the Corvette, La Chevrette. During 'Fabré's voyage to India' (1827-28), a geographical survey to India, including Réunion, Pondicherry, Calcutta, Rangoon, Ceylon, and Batavia, Reynaud, with the help of other officers, collected 40 cases of
- [1870-05-06](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/05-06-1870) - Georg Duncker (1870 - 1953) was born on this day. He was a German ichthyologist, associated with the Hamburg Zoological Museum (Zoologischen Museum Hamburg) from 1907. He participated in the first year of the Hamburg Südsee-Expedition (1908-10), collecting specimens on behalf of the Museum. From 1928 onward, he worked as a curator and professor at
- [1866-05-05](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/05-05-1866) - Edgar Ravenswood Waite (1866 - 1928) was born on this day. He was an English-born Australian zoologist, mainly interested in ichthyology and herpetology. Waite was assistant curator in charge of vertebrates at the Australian Museum, Sydney (1893-1905), curator of the Canterbury museum at Christchurch, New Zealand (1906-13), and director of the South Australian museum at
- [1922-05-04](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/05-04-1922) - 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
- [1882-05-03](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/05-03-1882) - Carl Fredrik Lindemann Dons (1882 - 1949) was born on this day. He was a Norwegian marine biologist. Dons was zoological curator at the Tromsø Museum from 1909, curator at the Museum in Trondheim (1920), then head of the biological station (1931). Mainly interested in decapod crustaceans, but published on several groups of marine fauna.
- [1860-05-02](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/05-02-1860) - D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860 - 1948) was born on this day. He was a Scottish zoologist, mathematician and classics scholar; Professor of Natural History at St Andrews, 1917-48. Best known for his book, On Growth and Form (1917), an investigation into the role of mathematics in biology; other publications include a translation of Aristotle's Historia
- [1753-05-01](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/05-01-1753) - Linneus' Species Plantarum was first published on this day. The publication of Species Plantarum marks the start of modern taxonomy, it was the first botanical work to consistently apply binomial names, listing all the plant species known to Linneus at the time, consisting of 5,940 names. Replacing the earlier, cumbersome, polynomial names with a more
- [2000-04-30](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/04-30-2000) - Ruth Turner (1914 - 2000) died on this day. She was a US marine biologist, primarily malacologist, specialising in Teredinidae or shipworms, the wood-boring bivalves which severely damage wooden marine installations. One of Harvard's first tenured women professors, Turner held the Alexander Agassiz Professorship at Harvard University and was a Curator of Malacology in the
- [1901-04-29](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/04-29-1901) - Hirohito (1901 - 1989) was born on this day. He was a Japanese marine biologist and Showa Emperor of Japan. Hirohito had a lifelong interest in marine biology and taxonomy, specialising in hydrozoans. He had a small, well-equipped biological laboratory established at the Akasaka Palace (1925) then three years later built the Imperial Biological Research
- [1828-04-27](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/04-27-1828) - London Zoo opened on this day. In 1826 Sir Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore, set up the Zoological Society of London in Regent's Park and made plans to build the world's first scientific zoo for ‘teaching and elucidating zoology’.The zoo, originally intended to be used as a collection for scientific study, opened for the
- [1785-04-26](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/04-26-1785) - John James Audubon (1785 - 1851) was born on this day. He was a US ornithologist, naturalist, and painter; he had the goal of finding and painting all the birds of North America for publication. Audobon is best known for his The Birds of America (1827-39), considered one of the finest ornithological works ever completed.
- [1822-04-25](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/04-25-1822) - George French Angas (1822 - 1886) was born on this day. He was a British born Australian naturalist and painter; secretary to the Australian Museum in Sydney (1853-60) where he supervised the work of classifying and arranging the first public collection of Australian specimens, especially shells. Angas published extensively on Australian shells and is regarded
- [1831-04-24](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/04-24-1831) - George Strong Nares (1831 - 1915) was born on this day. He was a British naval officer and Arctic explorer, he attained the rank of vice admiral. Nares took command of his own ship, the paddle-sloop HMS Salamander (1865), carried out extensive survey work off Australia, including the Great Barrier Reef. Following this was another
- [1916-04-23](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/04-23-1916) - Robert Rush Miller (1916 - 2003) was born on this day. He was a US ichthyologist specialising in freshwater fishes, a protegé of and collaborator with Carl Hubbs (also his son in law); after a brief period at the Smithsonian Institution (1944-48) associated with the Department of Zoology and Museum of Zoology at the University
- [1815-04-22](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/04-22-1815) - Wilhelm Peters (1815 - 1883) was born on this day. He was a German naturalist, assistant to the anatomist Johannes Peter Müller, later curator of the Berlin Zoological Museum (1858). He travelled to Mozambique in 1842, exploring the coastal region and the Zambesi River, returning with an enormous collection of natural history specimens, which he
- [1927-04-21](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/04-21-1927) - Peter Humphry Greenwood (1927 - 1995) was born on this day. He was a British ichthyologist specialising in the haplochromine cichlid fishes of Lake Victoria, east Africa. Greenwood worked at the Natural History Museum, London, throughout his career, initially under Dr Ethelwynn Trewavas, retiring in 1989 as deputy chief scientific officer. Greenwood described 25 Genera
- [1837-04-20](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/04-20-1837) - Georg Ossian Sars (1837 - 1927) was born on this day. He was a Norwegian zoologist specialising in crustaceans; son of biologist Michael Sars (1805 - 1869), he contributed illustrations to some of his father's works. Sars was a founding investigator of ichthyoplankton and was commissioned by the Norwegian government to investigate fisheries around the
- [1921-04-19](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/04-19-1921) - Ambat Gopalan Kutty Menon (1921 - 2002) was born on this day. He was an Indian ichthyologist, founder President of the Indian Society of Ichthyologists. Menon published over one hundred publications during his career covering both freshwater and marine fishes, including descriptions of 43 new species. Works include Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of India
- [1660-04-16](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/04-16-1660) - Hans Sloane (1660 - 1753) was born on this day. He was an Irish born British physician, naturalist and collector, best known for his role in helping to establish the British Museum. President of the Royal College of Physicians, later president of the Royal Society succeeding Sir Isaac Newton. Collected and catalogued around 800 new
- [1832-04-18](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/04-18-1832) - George Stewardson Brady (1832-1921) was born on this day. He was a British zoologist specialising in copepods, ostracods, and related crustaceans; professor of natural history at the Hancock Museum (now Great North Museum), Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Brady published the 3-volume A Monograph of the Free and Semi-parasitic Copepoda of the British Isles (1880) and wrote the reports
- [1772-04-15](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/04-15-1772) - Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772 - 1844) was born on this day. He was a French naturalist, professor of zoology at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Geoffroy accompanied Napoleon on his campaign to Egypt (1798 - 1801) as part of the scientific expedition as the zoologist responsible for the vertebrates. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire described around 55 aquatic
- [1895-04-14](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/04-14-1895) - James Dwight Dana (1813 - 1895) died on this day. He was a US geologist and naturalist, a member of the scientific corps of the Wilkes Expedition (1838 – 1842) for which he wrote the expedition reports on Zoophytes (1846), Geology (1849), and Crustacea (1852 - 1854). A correspondent of Darwin, he supported Darwin's ideas
- [1908-04-13](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/04-13-1908) - Franz Leydig (1821 - 1908) died on this day. He was a German zoologist and comparative anatomist, professor of Zoology and Comparative anatomy at the University of Tübingen, later of the University of Bonn where he was also director of the zoological museum and the zoological institute. In addition to his work in comparative anatomy
- [1937-04-12](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/04-12-1937) - Joseph S. Nelson (1937 - 2011) was born on this day. He was a US ichthyologist, professor at the University of Alberta. He is best known for his book, Fishes of the World a standard reference for fish systematics, first published in 1976 and due to go into its fifth edition in April 2016. Nelson
- [1852-04-11](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/04-11-1852) - Georges Pruvot (1852 - 1924) was born on this day. He was a French zoologist working on polychaete worms, director of the Arago laboratory at Banyuls-sur-Mer, southern France (1900), married to malacologist Alice Pruvot-Fol (1873 - 1972). Georges Pruvot described around 37 taxa and is honoured in the names of a number of taxa and
- [1914-04-10](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/04-10-1914) - Earl Stannard Herald (1914 - 1973) was born on this day. He was a US ichthyologist, curator, later Associate Director of Steinhart Aquarium of the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. Died in a diving accident off Cabo San Lucas, Baja California, whilst searching for specimens of Holacanthus clarionensis. Herald studied at Stanford under Myers.
- [1823-04-09](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/04-09-1823) - Andrew Garrett (1823 - 1887) was born on this day. He was a US naturalist and artist specialising in fishes and molluscs. During the 1840s Garrett travelled around the Pacific working on whalers and started to collect natural history objects, settling in Hawaii in 1852. He was a prolific collector of fishes sending specimens to
- [1777-04-08](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/04-08-1777) - Antoine Risso (1777 - 1845) was born on this day. He was a Niçard (citizen of Nice, now part of France) naturalist, known for studying the natural history of the Mediterranean. Risso is best known for his works on Mediterranean fishes but also published on crustaceans, molluscs, and cephalopods. Risso is honoured in the names
- [1896-04-07](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/04-07-1896) - Sheina Marshall (1896 - 1977) died on this day. She was a Scottish marine biologist and an authority on copepods. Marshall worked at the Scottish Marine Biological Association's research station at Millport (retiring as Deputy Director), on the island of Great Cumbrae in the Firth of Clyde helping to establish it as a leading centre
- [1810-04-06](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/04-06-1810) - 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
- [1777-04-05](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/04-05-1777) - Marie Jules César de Savigny (1777 - 1851) was born on this day. He was a French zoologist, worked at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle under Lamarck and Cuvier. Cuvier suggested to Napoleon that Savigny should accompany his campaign to Egypt (1798 - 1801) as part of the scientific expedition as a zoologist, Savigny became
- [1901-04-04](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/04-04-1901) - Arthur William Baden Powell (1901 - 1987) was born on this day. He was a New Zealand naturalist specialising in molluscs. Powell was a palaeontologist and conchologist at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, later assistant director 1936 - 1963. In 1932 he participated in the dredging expeditions of the British research ship Discovery II off
- [1863-04-03](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/04-03-1863) - August Brauer (1863 - 1917) was born on this day. He was a German zoologist, director of the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (1906). Brauer was a member of the 1898-99 Valdivia German Deep-Sea Expedition and made important contributions towards the multi-volume report, Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898-1899. He worked on
- [1711-04-02](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/04-02-1711) - Job Baster (1711 - 1775) was born on this day. He was a Dutch physician and naturalist, credited with the introduction of the goldfish to Holland (possibly after visiting London in 1732). Baster is best known for his beautifully illustrated multi-volume, Natuurlyke Uitspanningen behelzende eenige waarnemingen over sommige zee-planten en zee-insecten (1759 - 1765) (Natural
- [1859-04-01](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/04-01-1859) - Seth Eugene Meek (1859 - 1914) was born on this day. He was a US ichthyologist who studied at Indiana under Jordan, later assistant curator of the Division of Ichthyology and Herpetology at the Field Museum, Chicago. Meek is best known for his pioneering work on the freshwater fishes of Mexico and Panama, beginning the
- [1887-03-31](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/03-31-1887) - Keppel Harcourt Barnard (1887 - 1964) was born on this day. He was a UK born South African zoologist working in carcinology, malacology, and ichthyology. Assistant director of the South African Museum in Cape Town (1921), director from 1946 until his retirement in 1956, then Honoury Keeper of Fishes and Marine Invertebrates working on the
- [1723-03-30](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/03-30-1723) - Filippo Bonanni (1638 - 1723) died on this day. He was an Italian Jesuit scholar and naturalist, considered a founder of conchology; a pupil of Athanasius Kircher, whom he succeeded as teacher of mathematics at the Collegium Romanum (1680). After Kircher's death in 1698, Bonanni was appointed curator of the cabinet of curiosities gathered by
- [1908-03-28](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/03-28-1908) - Mihai Băcescu (1908 - 1999) was born on this day. He was a Romanian zoologist specializing in crustaceans, in particular the Mysidacea, Cumacea, and Tanaidacea, and in the ecology of the Black Sea. In 1964 he was appointed director of the Grigore Antipa Museum of Natural History, a position he held with distinction until his
- [1516-03-26](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/03-26-1516) - Conrad Gessner (1516 - 1565) was born on this day. He was a Swiss naturalist and physician. Gessner is best known for his five-volume Historiae animalium (1551 - 1587), a work considered to mark the beginning of modern zoology. In Historiae animalium Gessner combined data from old sources, such as the Old Testament, Aristotle, Pliny,
- [1848-03-25](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/03-25-1848) - William Keith Brooks (1848 - 1908) was born on this day. He was a US zoologist, influenced by the Agassiz family. Brooks studied embryological development in invertebrates and used his results as evidence for theories of evolution and ancestral heredity. He founded the Chesapeake Zoological Laboratory in 1878. Later in life, Brooks became head of
- [1902-03-24](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/03-24-1902) - Grace E. Pickford (1902 - 1986) was born on this day. She was an English born US biologist and endocrinologist associated with Yale’s Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory from 1931 for 40 years. Pickford studied cephalopods, publishing more than 20 papers between 1936 & 1974, and became recognized as the world's authority on the taxonomy and anatomy
- [1878-03-23](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/03-23-1878) - Henry Weed Fowler (1878 - 1965) was born on this day. He was a US ichthyologist who had studied under Jordan. Fowler spent his entire professional life with the Academy of Natural Sciences becoming the Academy's first full-time curator of fishes (1940-1965). In addition to ichthyology he also published on crustaceans, birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
- [1901-03-22](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/03-22-1901) - 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
- [1837-03-21](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/03-21-1837) - Theodore Nicholas Gill (1837 - 1914) was born on this day. He was a US ichthyologist associated with the Smithsonian for over 50 years. Gill produced more than 500 papers over the course of his career, the majority (388) dealing with fish, others covering birds, mammals, molluscs, and general biology. Among his most influential works
- [1794-03-20](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/03-20-1794) - René Primevère Lesson (1794 - 1849) was born on this day. He was a French zoologist and naval physician and served as pharmacist and naturalist on Duperrey's round-the-world voyage of La Coquille between 1822 and1825. Lesson spent seven years preparing the vertebrate zoological section of the official account of the expedition, Voyage autour du monde
- [1768-03-19](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/03-19-1768) - Edward Donovan (1768 - 1837) was born on this day. He was an Anglo-Irish natural history collector, illustrator, and writer. Donovan was the author and illustrator of a number of natural history titles, including The Natural History of British Shells (1800 - 04) and The Natural History of British Fishes (1802 - 08). He founded
- [1798-03-18](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/03-18-1798) - Daniel Frederick Eschricht (1798 - 1863) was born on this day. He was a Danish zoologist and comparative anatomist with an interest in whales. Between 1843 and 1862 he published eight treatises on whales in the Transactions of the Royal Danish Society of Sciences. In 1846 he arranged for one of the first complete whale
- [1924-03-17](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/03-17-1924) - Zbigniew 'Bob' Kabata (1924 - 2014) was born on this day. He was a Polish zoologist specialising in fish parasitology who developed the notion that separate fish populations might be identified by studying the prevalence of various parasites and diseases. Kabata is best known for The Parasitic Copepoda of British Fishes (1979), an influential work
- [1887-03-16](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/03-16-1887) - S. Stillman Berry (1887 - 1984) was born on this day. He was a US malacologist interested in cephalopods, chitons and land snails; the published version of his doctoral dissertation, Cephalopoda, is still considered the definitive study of Pacific cephalopods. Although he was only a professional academic for five years, as a librarian and research
- [1789-03-15](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/03-15-1789) - Jonathan Couch (1789 - 1870) was born on this day. He was a Cornish naturalist, primarily ichthyologist, and physician. Couch helped Yarrell complete his History of British Fishes (1836), lending him coloured illustrations and notes but is best known for his own A History of the Fishes of the British Islands, (1862 - 65), the
- [1876-03-14](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/03-14-1876) - Lev Berg (1876 - 1950) was born on this day. He was a Russian geographer and ichthyologist. Berg's scholarly output was immense, his work spanned evolutionary theory, ichthyology, general zoology and biology, palaeontology, zoogeography, geography, geology, and ethnography. He published over 200 works on ichthyology including the four volume Fishes of Russia (1916), Fresh-water fishes
- [1839-03-13](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/03-13-1839) - Thomas Henry Tizard (1839 - 1924) was born on this day. He was an English naval officer and oceanographer and a member of the crew of the Challenger Expedition. Although Tizard was not among the civilian scientific staff of the expedition he would later help write the official account of the expedition, and also become
- [1854-03-12](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/03-12-1854) - E. W. Scripps (1854 - 1926) died on this day. He was a US newspaper publisher and in 1903, along with his sister Ellen, was a founding donor towards what we today know as the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Although initially doubtful about the venture he developed a deep friendship with the scientific director, William
- [1730-03-11](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/03-11-1730) - Otto Friedrich Müller (1730 - 1784) was born on this day. He was a Danish naturalist and a pioneer in the study of micro-organisms. Müller discovered the first diatom ever seen but thought it was an animal because of its movement. He arranged the Infusoria for the first time into genera and species in Vermium
- [1787-03-27](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/03-27-1787) - Pierre Antoine Delalande (1787 - 1823) was born on this day. He was a French was a naturalist and explorer, also referred to as de la Lande or de Lalande, employed by the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle to collect natural history specimens. He collected in Brazil (1816) and in South Africa (1818 - 1821). The
- [1709-03-10](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/03-10-1709) - Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709 - 1746) was born on this day. He was a German naturalist and arctic explorer and is considered to be a pioneer of Alaskan natural history. He accompanied Bering on his Second Kamchatka Expedition joining it in 1740; Steller became both the first non-native to set foot upon Alaskan soil and
- [1863-03-09](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/03-09-1863) - Carl H. Eigenmann (1863 - 1927) was born on this day. A German born US ichthyologist who studied under Jordan at Indiana, later dean of Indiana's graduate school (1908). He was married to fellow ichthyologist Rosa Smith Eigenmann (1848 - 1947) with whom he published many collaborative works. Know for his work on the cave-dwelling
- [1822-03-08](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/03-08-1822) - Charles Frédéric Girard (1822 - 1895) was born on this day. He was a French born US zoologist specializing in ichthyology and herpetology. Girard accompanied Agassiz to Harvard as his assistant; later moved on to the Smithsonian, where he was effectively both its first ichthyologist and first herpetologist, to work on the growing collection of
- [1860-03-07](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/03-07-1860) - Jean Baptiste François René Koehler (1860 - 1931) was born on this day. He was a French zoologist, Professor at the University of Lyon, elected as president of the Société zoologique de France (1911). Worked on isopods, echinoderms, and molluscs. Amongst his other publications he wrote the echinoderm volume in the ongoing series Faune de
- [1945-03-06](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/03-06-1945) - Theodore Wells Pietsch III (1945 - ) was born on this day. A US ichthyologist at the University of Washington, specialising on the evolution, ecology, and behaviour of anglerfishes (shallow-water and deep-sea). He is the author of over 200 scientific and popular articles, including a dozen books, on marine ichthyology, and has also written on
- [1830-03-05](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/03-05-1830) - Charles Wyville Thomson (1830 - 1882) was born on this day. He was a Scottish marine biologist. Wyville Thomson is remembered for his studies of the biology of the deep-seas; the results of the dredgings by Sars off Norway led him to persuade the Royal Navy to grant him use of HMS Lightning and HMS
- [1824-03-04](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/03-04-1824) - Louis François de Pourtalès (1824 - 1880) was born on this day. He was a Swiss born US naturalist who accompanied Louis Agassiz to America in 1847; keeper of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. Pourtalès was a pioneer of deep-sea dredging in America and in the study of deep sea echinoderms, sponges, and corals;
- [1841-03-03](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/03-03-1841) - John Murray (1841 - 1914) was born on this day. He was a Scottish oceanographer and marine biologist, considered to be the father of modern oceanography. Murray was heavily involved in the Challenger Expedition, preparing scientific apparatus for the expedition in advance and joining the crew as a naturalist. After the expedition he was appointed
- [1829-03-02](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/03-02-1829) - Francis Day (1829 - 1889) was born on this day. He was a British military surgeon and naturalist stationed in India, later Inspector-General of Fisheries in India and Burma. Day wrote extensively on Indian fishes publishing, The Fishes of Malabar (1865), The Fishes of India; being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit
- [1819-03-01](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/03-01-1819) - Johann Gustav Fischer (1819 - 1889) was born on this day. He was a German zoologist, curator of the herpetological and ichthyological collections of Hamburg's Naturhistorisches Museum. Fischer described numerous taxa including at least 2 genera of fishes, he is honoured under the species name fischeri.
- [1644-02-29](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/02-29-1644) - Abel Tasman (1603 - 1659) set sail on his second voyage on this day. He was a Dutch explorer who, on his previous voyage, discovered New Zealand and Diemen's Land (now Tasmania). His second voyage was less eventful, he mapped the north coast of Australia calling it New Holland and made observations about the land
- [1761-02-28](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/02-28-1761) - Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet (1761 - 1807) was born on this day. He was a French naturalist, founding member of the Linnaean Society of Paris, later Directeur du Jardin des Plantes de Montpellier. An admirer of Linnaeus‘s work Broussonet set out to emulate him with a work on fishes implementing the Linnean system of nomenclature
- [1902-02-27](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/02-27-1902) - John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968) was born on this day. He was a US novelist, author of 16 novels, many of them set in California or during the Great Depression. Steinbeck has a peripheral connection to the aquatic sciences through his friendship with marine biologist Ed Ricketts, the model for 'Doc' in Cannery Row (1945).
- [1718-02-26](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/02-26-1718) - Johan Ernst Gunnerus (1718 - 1773) was born on this day. He was a Norwegian bishop and naturalist. A founding member of the Trondheim Society, later to become the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters. Gunnerus was a correspondent of Linnaeus, publishing a description of the basking shark in 1765 naming it Squalus maximus
- [1838-02-25](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/02-25-1838) - Walther Herwig (1838 - 1912) was born on this day. He was a Prussian administrator and is regarded as the founder of German fisheries science. Herwig promoted the development of a German high seas fishing industry, he was President of the Central Committee for the International Exploration of the Sea 1902 - 1908 (later known
- [1743-02-24](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/02-24-1743) - Joseph Banks (1743 - 1820) was born on this day. He was a British naturalist and botanist; known mainly for his participation in Cook's first voyage of discovery, he was elected President of the Royal Society in 1778, a position he held for over 40 years. Perhaps more of a collector than an active scientist,
- [1800-02-23](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/02-23-1800) - William Jardine (1841 - 1919) was born on this day. A Scottish naturalist, he was notable for editing and publishing a series of natural history books, The Naturalist's Library. The widely available series of books extended to 40 volumes, including six on ichthyology, and made natural history accessible to a wider audience than had been
- [1823-02-21](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/02-21-1823) - Eduard Oscar Schmidt (1823 - 1886) was born on this day. He was a German zoologist, professor of zoology at the University of Cracow, later at the University of Graz then Strasbourg. Areas of work included phycology and the Porifera on which he wrote a number of monographs covering the Adriatic, Atlantic, Caribbean, and Mediterranean.
- [1840-02-20](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/02-20-1840) - Wilhelm Kobelt (1840 - 1916) was born on this day. He was a German zoologist specializing in malacology and curator of the Senckenberg Museum. He is honoured in the names of several species under kobelti. Malacology – derived from Malaco-, Greek, malacos (malakos), soft; malakia, cephalopod mollusca (Aristotle Hist. Animalium); -logy, logos, account, explanation, narrative,
- [1869-02-18](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/02-18-1869) - Johan Hjort (1869 - 1948) was born on this day. He was a Norwegian zoologist and fisheries scientist; director of the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research 1900 - 1916, one of the founders of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea in 1902, later President (1938 - 1948). He worked on the population
- [1666-04-17](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/04-17-1666) - François Valentijn (1666 - 1727) was born on this day. He was a Dutch minister and naturalist, best known as author of Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën (Old and New East-india). Valentijn worked in the Moluccas 1685-94 and then in East Java 1706-1714. On his return to Holland he wrote Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën (1724-26) a
- [1852-01-25](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/01-25-1852) - Richard Rathbun was born on this day. A US biologist working on parasitic copepods, later Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, then Director. His sister Mary J. Rathbun (1860 - 1943) also worked at the Smithsonian as a crustacean researcher, she wrote or co-wrote 166 papers, including descriptions of 1147 new species and subspecies, 63
- [1910-03-29](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/03-29-1910) - The Oceanographic Museum of Monaco was inaugurated on this day. Part of the Institut Océanographique, Fondation Albert Ier, Prince de Monaco (Oceanographic Institute Foundation Albert I, Prince of Monaco), founded by Prince Albert I of Monaco to explore oceanographic science, the world-renowned Museum in Monaco (Musée océanographique) is dedicated to public education and research. One
- [1977-02-19](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/02-19-1977) - Researchers using DSV Alvin discover species living around hydrothermal vents. During an expedition to investigate floor of the Pacific Ocean off the Galapagos Islands in the search for hydrothermal vents researchers found not only the vents that they were searching for but also an unexpected community of animals. Previously unknown species of worms, clams and
- [1754-02-17](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/02-17-1754) - Nicolas Baudin was born on this day. A French explorer and naturalist, best known as captain of the Baudin expedition to Australia (1800 - 1804) with the ships Le Géographe and Naturaliste. The purpose of the expedition was to establish a permanent colonial presence in the South Seas in competition with the British and to
- [1834-02-16](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/02-16-1834) - Ernst Haeckel was born on this day. He was a German zoologist, philosopher, and artist; a prolific author whose works including monographs on Radiolaria (1862), Siphonophora (1869), Monera (1870), and Calcareous Sponges (1872), along with Challenger reports on Deep-Sea Medusae (1881), Siphonophora (1888), Deep-Sea Keratosa (1889) Radiolaria (1887). His skills as an artist can perhaps
- [1762-02-15](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/02-15-1762) - Francis Buchanan-Hamilton was born on this day. Also known as Francis Hamilton, he was a Scottish physician and naturalist who undertook two surveys in India looking at many aspects of the country and its inhabitants including its natural history. He may be best known for, An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges
- [1779-02-14](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/02-14-1779) - James Cook was killed on this day. A British naval officer, explorer, and navigator; famous for his 3 voyages of exploration. Amongst his many achievements he is significant for being one of the first modern scientific navigators and for including naturalists in his crew to document newly discovered flora and fauna. He died, along with
- [1851-02-13](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/02-13-1851) - George Brown Goode was born on this day. He was a US ichthyologist who had studied under Agassiz and later worked with Spencer Baird as his assistant. He became assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in charge of the United States National Museum, effectively running both the fish research program of the U.S. Fish Commission
- [1809-02-12](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/02-12-1809) - Charles Darwin was born on this day. He was an English naturalist and geologist primarily remembered for his contributions to evolutionary theory (On the Origin of Species). His influence on the aquatic sciences includes the natural history documented in the Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle (1838-43), his study on the formation of coral
- [1715-02-11](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/02-11-1715) - Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland, was born on this day. She was a British aristocrat, the richest woman in Britain, and a collector of natural history objects. She amassed the largest natural history collection in the country which, unlike many similar contemporary ones was well-curated, with naturalist John Lightfoot, and the Swedish botanist Daniel Solander
- [1907-02-10](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/02-10-1907) - Kiyomatsu Matsubara was born on this day. He was a Japanese ichthyologist and the first professor of the Department of Fisheries of the University of Kyoto, where in 1947 he established the university's fish collection under the acronym FAKU (Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University), the second largest fish collection in Japan. Matsubara worked on scorpaenoid
- [1839-02-09](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/02-09-1839) - Addison Emery Verrill was born on this day. He was a US zoologist and the first professor of zoology at the Yale University. Verrill worked on the invertebrates of the Atlantic coast, covering annelids, corals, echinoderms, and mollusks, becoming the leading authority on the cephalopods; later working on the marine animals of the Bermuda Islands.
- [1825-02-08](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/02-08-1825) - Henry Walter Bates was born on this day. He was an English naturalist who spent 11 years in the Amazon exploring and collecting natural history specimens. He started the expedition in the company of Wallace (who returned home after 4 years) and eventually amassed a collection of 14,712 species, 8,000 of which were new to
- [1825-02-07](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/02-07-1825) - Karl August Möbius was born on this day. He was a German zoologist and a pioneer in the field of ecology. Möbius opened the first German marine aquarium in Hamburg in 1863. He was Professor of Zoology at the University of Kiel and the director of the Zoological Museum, later director of the Zoological Collections
- [1835-02-06](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/02-06-1835) - Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing was born on this day. He was a British zoologist specializing in crustaceans, publishing more than 110 papers on amphipods. Stebbing's publications included a monograph on the Amphipoda of the Challenger Expedition (1883), a general natural history of the Crustacea (1893), and a monograph on the crustacean order Cumacea (1913). His
- [1811-02-05](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/02-05-1811) - William Henry Harvey was born on this day. He was an Irish botanist specializing in algae; Professor of Botany of the Royal Dublin Society and curator of the Trinity College Herbarium. Harvey was the leading phycologist of his era, author of publications including Phycologia Britannica (1846 - 51), Nereis Boreali-Americana. (1852 - 85), and Phycologia
- [1848-02-04](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/02-04-1848) - Walter Faxon was born on this day. He was a US ornithologist and carcinologist; Curator of the Invertebrate Department of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard. He spent many years researching and classifying US crayfish, covering 110 species and subspecies in his 1914 review of the subject. Faxon described around 130 taxa and is honoured
- [1823-02-03](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/02-03-1823) - Spencer Fullerton Baird was born on this day. He was a US naturalist and ichthyologist, first curator at the Smithsonian Institution (later Secretary), Director of the United States National Museum, and the first Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries for the United States Fish Commission. Baird remained active in research and publication but his administrative work
- [1874-02-02](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/02-02-1874) - William T. Innes was born on this day. He was a US aquarist and author; founder, publisher and editor of The Aquarium the the first national US tropical freshwater fishkeeping magazine (1932 - 1967). Innes is probably best known for his influential book, Exotic Aquarium Fishes (1935), which ran through 19 editions informing several generations
- [1878-02-01](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/02-01-1878) - Charles Tate Regan was born on this day. He was a British ichthyologist and Keeper of Zoology at the Natural History Museum, later director of the museum (1927 - 1938). One of the greatest ichthyologists of his day, building on the work of his predecessors, Günther and Boulenger, he continued the work of establishing arguably
- [1793-01-31](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/01-31-1793) - Joseph Paul Gaimard was born on this day. A French naturalist and physician, he participated in 4 major expeditions of scientific exploration between 1817 and 1840, two in the company of Jean René Quoy. Together with Quoy he described around 1100 taxa. Gaimard is honoured in the names of 129 taxa including one superfamily, one
- [1903-01-30](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/01-30-1903) - G. Evelyn Hutchinson was born on this day. An English born US zoologist and ecologist who specialized in limnology. Often referred to variously as the father of modern ecology and/or limnology. Hutchinson Lake, Ontario, Canada, is named for him. He is honoured in the names of at least 22 taxa including two genera, species names
- [1843-01-29](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/01-29-1843) - Edward Morell Holmes was born on this day. A British botanist who specialised in lichens and marine algae. He was lecturer in Botany at Westminster Medical School and curator for 50 years of the Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. He is honoured in the name of the algal genus Holmesella and in two species
- [1887-01-28](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/01-28-1887) - Paul Lassenius Kramp was born on this day. He was a Danish cnidariologist, a marine biologist specializing in the study of jellyfish. Kramp is honoured in the names of a subfamily and 2 genera along with 12 species under krampi. Cnidariologist, derived from the scientific Latin Cnidaria – cnid-, Latin, cnide (Greek, knidh), nettle, sea-nettle;
- [1758-01-26](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/01-26-1758) - Joseph Hugues Boissieu La Martinière was born on this day. He was a French botanist and member of the ill-fated La Perouse Expedition, 1785 - 1788, a voyage of exploration inspired by the earlier voyages of Cook, which ended with the loss of both ships (L'Astrolabe and La Boussole) and all crew. La Martinière described
- [1861-01-27](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/01-27-1861) - Louis Joubin was born on this day. He was a French marine biologist, professor at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris, holding the position of Chaire des Mollusques. Joubin worked on nemerteans and chaetognatha, as well as the cephalopods and other molluscs for which he is best known. He is honoured in the names
- [1872-01-24](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/01-24-1872) - John Stanley Gardiner was born on this day. He was a British zoologist and pioneer of coral reef research. His work not only included the identification and taxonomy of corals but also the study of growth rates and feeding strategies, identifying the role played by symbiotic algae in coral nutrition; he also carried out some
- [1790-01-23](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/01-23-1790) - Johann Jakob Heckel was born on this day. He was an Austrian ichthyologist and director of the Fish Collection at the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna. Heckel described 122 taxa, mostly freshwater, including around 30 new genera with names familiar to aquarists such as Geophagus, Pterophyllum, Symphysodon, and Xiphophorus. He is honoured in 17 species of
- [1916-01-22](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/01-22-1916) - Arthur Grover Humes was born on this day. He was a US copepodologist specialising in parasitic and symbiotic copepods. Humes discovered and described many symbiotic copepods living in association with a diverse range of marine animals, from sponges and holothurians, soft corals and anemones, to marine mammals. Likely the most productive copepodologist in history, publishing
- [2007-01-21](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/01-21-2007) - Rare Frilled shark filmed on this day. A Japanese fisherman found a 1.6m long female alive at the surface, it was taken to nearby Awashima Marine Park, Shizuoka, but died after a few hours. A seldom seen deep-water species (120 - 1280 m) first observed in its natural habitat at around 870m in 2004 by
- [1853-01-20](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/01-20-1853) - Friedrich Siebenrock was born on this day. He was an Austrian herpetologist specializing in chelonians, he succeeded Franz Steindachner as curator of Herpetology and Ichthyology at the Naturhistorisches Museum (Vienna). He is honoured in the names of three species under siebenrocki. Herpetology – derived from Herpeto-, Greek, herpeton, erpeton, creeping thing, reptile; -logy, logos, account,
- [1851-01-19](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/01-19-1851) - David Starr Jordan was born on this day. US ichthyologist and the founding president of Stanford University. David Starr Jordan was one of the most influential ichthyologists of the late 19th - early 20th century, both individually and through his students. He wrote more than 50 books and published over 600 scientific papers; a search
- [1750-01-18](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/01-18-1750) - Johann Gottlob Schneider was born on this day. He was a German naturalist and classicist best known to the aquatic world for his association with Bloch. He corrected and expanded Marcus Elieser Bloch's Systema Ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustratum, an incomplete scheme of an ichthyological system, publishing it in 1801. He can be found cited as
- [1560-01-17](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/01-17-1560) - Gaspard Bauhin was born on this day. He was a Swiss botanist and taxonomist, author of Pinax theatri botanica (1623) which described around 6,000 species and introduced the idea of binomial nomenclature. Bauhin began the system of plant classification based upon general morphology establishing the first scientific system of nomenclature. He discarded the arbitrary or
- [1854-01-16](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/01-16-1854) - Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré died this day. He was a French botanist who served on three major voyages of exploration: the circumglobal expedition of the ships L'Uranie and La Physicienne (1817 - 1820), on L'Herminie to South America (1831), and the global circumnavigation on La Bonite (1836 - 1837). He is honoured in 47 aquatic taxa, two
- [1759-02-15](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/02-15-1759) - The British Museum opens to the public for the first time on this day. Largely based around the library and cabinet of curiosities of Irish-born British physician and naturalist Sir Hans Sloane, it boasted an extensive natural history collection as a result of Sloane's past acquisition of a number of notable collections from naturalists and
- [1997-01-14](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/01-14-1997) - The discovery of the remains of Aristotle’s Lyceum announced on this day. An ancient Greek philosopher and scientist who lived from 384 to 322 BCE, considered by many to be the first scientist. From c.335 BCE to 322 BCE Aristotle taught at his school, the Lyceum, and studied and wrote on a plethora of subjects.
- [1854-01-13](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/01-13-1854) - Hector Frederik Estrup Jungersen was born on this day. A Danish marine biologist, professor of zoology and manager of the zoological museum department of vertebrates at the University of Copenhagen. He had a particular interest in fish anatomy and also wrote on pennatularians (sea-pens) and Alcyonaria (now referred to as Octocorallia or soft corals). He
- [1732-01-11](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/01-11-1732) - Peter Forsskål was born on this day. A Swedish naturalist and orientalist, considered an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. He was the naturalist of the Royal Danish expedition of 1761 - 1767 to Arabia, where in addition to his role of describing new species he was tasked with recording their local names both in Arabic and
- [1994-01-12](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/01-12-1994) - John West Wells died this day. A US zoologist and palaeontologist, who studied scleractinia and was considered to be a leading authority on modern and fossil corals. He is honoured in the name of a genus of scleractinian coral, Wellsophyllia, and at least 7 further species as wellsi. Scleractinia, derived from the Greek, Scler-, sklhros,
- [1895-01-10](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/01-10-1895) - William Charles Schroeder was born on this day. A US ichthyologist, he devoted his career to the study of the fishes of the western North Atlantic. With his colleague and friend Henry Bryant Bigelow, at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, he described one new family, seven genera, and 42 new species. He is honoured in
- [1870-01-09](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/01-09-1870) - Hubert Lyman Clark was born on this day. A US zoologist who published on birds, snakes, and flowers but was best known for his work on echinoderms; curator of echinoderms at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, later curator of marine invertebrates and associate professor of zoology. Echinoderm, derived from Greek, Echino-, exinos,
- [1745-01-07](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/01-07-1745) - Johan Christian Fabricius was born on this day. A Danish zoologist specializing in entomology at a time when the 'Insecta' included arthropods such as arachnids and crustaceans. A student of Linnaeus, he is considered one of the most important entomologists of the 18th century having named nearly 10,000 species of insects, and helping to establish
- [1823-01-08](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/01-08-1823) - Alfred Russel Wallace was born on this day. A British naturalist, explorer, geographer, and anthropologist, also known for independently conceiving the concept of evolution through natural selection. While returning from his Amazon basin expedition (1848 - 1852) his ship caught fire and sank with the loss of the nearly 450 specimens of fish he'd collected
- [1786-01-05](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/01-05-1786) - Thomas Nuttall was born on this day. An English natural history collector, later botanist and ornithologist, he's regarded as one of North America's most important, widely traveled, pioneer naturalists. A member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, he lived and worked in USA between 1808 -1841. For a scientist not immediately associated with
- [1797-01-06](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/01-06-1797) - Edward Turner Bennett was born on this day. An English zoologist, Secretary of the Zoological Society of London, 1833 – 1836. Author, along with G. T. Lay, of the section on Fishes in the Zoology of Beechey's Voyage (1839). Honoured in the name Chaetodon bennetti Cuvier, 1831: the Bluelashed butterflyfish.
- [2009-01-04](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/01-04-2009) - Anatoly Petrovich Andriyashev died this day. He was a Russian marine biologist noted for his studies of the marine fauna of the Arctic and the Northern Pacific. Andriyashev was the author of over 230 scientific papers and is honoured in the names of 2 genera and 32 species under the spelling 'Andriashev'.
- [1722-01-03](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/01-03-1722) - Fredrik Hasselquist was born this day. A Swedish naturalist who studied under Linnaeus and was considered one of his apostles (a group of students who carried out botanical and zoological expeditions throughout the world, either devised or approved by him). In response to Linnaeus' regret at the lack of information about the natural history of
- [1835-01-02](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/01-02-1835) - Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus was born this day. A German zoologist, Professor of Zoology at the University of Vienna, he was the first prominent scientist to devote most of his career to copepods, publishing the first book dealing solely with the topic. He is honoured in the name of the family Clausiidae and six of
- [1778-01-01](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/01-01-1778) - French naturalist and artist Charles Alexandre Lesueur was born on this day. A member of the 1800 - 1803 Baudin expedition to map the coast of Australia. Although holding the position of artist (natural history), as the scientific crew was depleted through death and illness he took over the duties of naturalist assisting zoologist François
- [1708-12-28](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/12-28-1708) - Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656 - 1708) died this day. He was a French botanist, noted for being the first to make a clear definition of the concept of genus for plants. His use of a single Latin name for the genus, followed by a few descriptive words for the species, was a major step
- [1840-12-24](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/12-24-1840) - Thomas Hughes Buffham was born on this day. A British phycologist and microscopist who made a significant contribution to the understanding of British marine flora. His collection of 1,330 marine algal specimens is held by the Natural History Museum. Buffham described 9 species of marine algae and is honoured in the names of one genus
- [1906-12-31](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/12-31-1906) - Gunnar Thorson was born on this day. A Danish marine biologist who studied the planktonic larvae of marine benthic invertebrates he was professor of marine biology at the University of Copenhagen. He founded a Marine Biological Laboratory on the Island of Hven, now based at Helsingør under the University of Copenhagen. He is honoured in
- [1872-12-30](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/12-30-1872) - The Challenger Expedition. On this day HMS Challenger carried out the first dredging operation of the voyage, bringing up samples of mud and several species of fish from a depth of 1125 fathoms (2 kilometres) off Vigo, Spain. The voyage encompassing the world's great ocean basins and lasting from 1872 to 1876, had the aim
- [1871-12-29](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/12-29-1871) - Dr William Thomas Calman was born on this day. A major figure in carcinology, Calman was a Scottish zoologist specializing in crustaceans who became keeper of zoology at the Natural History Museum, 1927 – 1936. Calman described more than 230 taxa and is honoured in the names of around 50 species, mainly crustaceans. Carcinology –
- [1831-12-27](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/12-27-1831) - The second voyage of HMS Beagle departed Plymouth Sound on this day. This voyage, lasting from 1831 to 1836 is the most famous of the Beagle's 3 scientific expeditions, immortalized in the journals of Charles Darwin published as The Voyage of the Beagle. Commemorated in the genus Beaglichthys, albeit at second-hand as the species in
- [1756-12-26](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/12-26-1756) - Bernard Germain de Lacépède was born on this day. A French naturalist, he worked under Georges Buffon at the Jardin du Roi, Paris, and continued and completed Buffon's Histoire naturelle, a 44 volume encyclopedia of the natural sciences. He is of particular interest to ichthyologists and etymologists for his own 5 volume Histoire naturelle des
- [1809-12-19](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/12-19-1809) - Pierre-Joseph van Beneden was born on this day. A Belgian zoologist, he established what was possibly the world’s first marine research station at Ostend in 1843, incorporating a marine laboratory and aquarium. His areas of study included marine invertebrates, cetaceans (both living and extinct), and parasitology, publishing more than two hundred papers over the course
- [1643-12-25](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/12-25-1643) - Christmas Island Captain William Mynors of the East India Company vessel, the Royal Mary, sights and names the island on Christmas Day. The first recorded landing doesn't occur until 1688 by the crew of the Cygnet under the command of English navigator William Dampier. This island is the site of one of the planet's greatest
- [1861-12-20](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/12-20-1861) - Prof. Dr. Louis Roule was born on this day. A French naturalist, he published on both fishes and invertebrates, describing 122 taxa. He held the chair of zoology (reptiles and fish) at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris from 1910 to 1937. The Slickhead genus Rouleina along with 17 species of fishes and
- [1930-12-21](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/12-21-1930) - Richard H. Rosenblatt was born on this day. A world-renowned US ichthyologist and professor associated with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography throughout his long career. He described 39 new species and 7 genera and had a further 9 species and 3 genera named in his honour including Opistognathus rosenblatti Allen & Robertson, 1991, the Blue-spotted
- [1938-12-22](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/12-22-1938) - The discovery of the first living specimen of Coelacanth. A species previously known only from the fossil record, thought at the time to have been extinct for over 65 million years, was discovered by Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, curator of the East London Museum, South Africa. Coelacanth, a shortening of the fossil genus name Coelacanthus - derives
- [1933-12-23](https://aquaticallatin.info/this-day-in-history/12-23-1933) - HIM Emperor Akihito of Japan was born on this day. Following his father's interest in marine biology (Emperor Hirohito, who established the Biological Laboratory of the Imperial Household in 1925) he is a published ichthyologist specialising in the family Gobiidae, describing 8 new species of gobies and having a further 6 species of gobies named

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