AQUATICAL•LATIN

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

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 geology at Harvard where he founded the Museum of Comparative Zoology (1859), serving as first director until his death. His son, Alexander Agassiz, continued the family association, serving as curator and, later, director. Agassiz took part in two expeditions to South America, the Thayer Expedition to Brazil (1865-66) and the Hassler Expedition (1871-72) resulting in the collection of some 60,000 specimens of fish, much of the material housed in the ichthyology collection of the museum.
Its difficult to enumerate and differentiate those taxa described by Agassiz from those described by his son; he is honoured in the names of a number of species under agassizi(i) (as is his son).

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