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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

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 prolific of any Indo-Pacific ichthyologist, he described 1,925 new species (more than any other ichthyologist) of which 743 remain valid and described 520 genera, of which 298 remain valid (more valid genera than any other ichthyologist). He is famous for his Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises, a monumental work on the fishes of East Asia published between 1862 and 1877. On his return to the Netherlands in 1860 he brought home a huge collection, some 18,000 specimens, most of which are now in the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie in Leiden.
Bleeker is honoured in the names of a fish genus, Bleekeria, and in the names of a number of around a 100 species under bleekeri, and bleekianus.

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