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

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AQUATICAL•LATIN featured on Reefs.com

Posted on 15th October 201715th October 2017 by Timataquaticallatin

Many thanks to Reefs.com for featuring both the AQUATICAL•LATIN website and the new AQUATICAL•LATIN book.

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New from Aquatical Latin…

  • New on AQUATICAL•LATIN – Index of Common Names 27th February 2018
  • AQUATICAL•LATIN featured in Practical Fishkeeping April 2018 20th February 2018
  • AQUATICAL•LATIN featured in DIVER magazine Feb 2018 13th February 2018
  • Book Launch featured on Lichfield Live 15th December 2017
  • AQUATICAL•LATIN official book launch. 6th December 2017

Contents

  • About the Author
  • AQUATICAL•LATIN – the Book
    • AQUATICAL•LATIN Vol 1 – Index of Common Names
  • Site Map
  • Welcome to AQUATICAL•LATIN
  • Latin & Greek – English Lexicon.
    • An introduction to the ancient Greek alphabet.
    • Words relating to number or quantity.
    • Colour terms.
    • Words relating to markings
      • Lines and stripes
      • Spots and blotches
    • Suffixes
    • Geographical epithets
    • Eponyms
    • Scientific Terms
  • AQUATICAL•LATIN – the online etymology
  • This Day In History

This Day In History

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 met Lamarck, Cuvier, and other famous zoologists of that time. They were sent to Java to study its natural history by the Netherlands Commission for Natural Sciences (1820), travelling via Madeira, the Cape of Good Hope, and the Cocos islands, studying pelagic fauna en route. Kuhl died less than a year after arriving in Java, Hasselt continued collecting for a further two years before dying himself; he and Kuhl are buried in a single grave in the Bogor Botanical Garden, West Java. Their collection, sent to the Museum of Leiden, amounted to 200 skeletons, 200 mammal skins, 2000 bird skins, 1400 fishes, 300 reptiles and amphibians, along with many insects and crustaceans.
Hasselt described around 88 aquatic taxa and is honoured in the names of a number of species under hasselti(i).

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