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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…

  • AQUATICAL•LATIN – site updated to cover both Tim’s Fiction and Non-Fiction books 24th February 2026
  • New on AQUATICAL•LATIN – Index of Common Names 27th February 2018
  • AQUATICAL•LATIN featured in Practical Fishkeeping April 2018 20th February 2018
  • AQUATICAL•LATIN featured in DIVER magazine Feb 2018 13th February 2018
  • Book Launch featured on Lichfield Live 15th December 2017

Contents

  • AQUATICAL•LATIN – the Book
    • AQUATICAL•LATIN Vol 1 – Index of Common Names
  • Fiction
    • About the Author…
    • About the Book…
    • About the Title…
    • How it Came to Be…
    • Links…
    • Miscellaneous
    • News…
    • Tim’s Musings…
  • Site Map
  • Welcome to AQUATICAL•LATIN
  • Latin & Greek – English Lexicon.
    • An introduction to the ancient Greek alphabet.
    • Words relating to number or quantity.
    • Colour terms.
    • Words relating to markings
      • Lines and stripes
      • Spots and blotches
    • Suffixes
    • Geographical epithets
    • Eponyms
    • Scientific Terms
  • AQUATICAL•LATIN – the online etymology
  • This Day In History

This Day In History

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 concise, consistently used two word name simplified botany and zoology immensely. In 1758 Linnaeus' tenth edition of Systema Naturae would extend the same technique to animals for the first time.
With the scientific world's acceptance of these works the Linnaean system was born, and is currently used today much as it was in the 18th century, these two publications are regarded as the starting point for valid scientific names with pre-Linnaean names being considered invalid.

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