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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.

To see more go to: Reefs.com

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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

  • 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

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 map the coast of Australia and New Guinea. The expedition started with a scientific crew of unprecedented size comprising 24 scientists, illustrators, and gardeners only six of which completed the journey, 12 left ship owing to illness and 6 died during the voyage; Baudin himself died in Mauritius on the return journey. Naturalists Péron and Lesueur managed to return to France with over 200,000 specimens, 2,500 of which were new to science.
Baudin (along with the expedition) is honoured in the bryzoan names Baudina geographae Gordon, 2009 and Baudina naturalistae Gordon, 2009, also in species names under baudini.

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