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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

1791 Emanuel Mendez da Costa (1717 - 1791) died on this day. He was an English naturalist, primarily a conchologist. Da Costa was one of the first Jewish Fellows of the Royal Society of London, employed as a clerk (1763) with responsibility for the museum, library and member's subscriptions, was discovered to be withholding members' subscription fees (1767), convicted of fraud, and sentenced to five years in debtors' prison. His works include Elements of Conchology, or An Introduction to the Knowledge of Shells (1776) where the word conchology appears for the first time, “This peculiar branch of the History of Nature I shall call Conchology”, and British Conchology (1778). Da Costa objected to the language used by Linnaeus in describing bivalves, words usually associated with the intimate anatomy of the human female, seeing it as licentious and having no place in science.
Da Costa described around 160 species and is likely honoured in the name of bivalve genus, Dacosta, and in the names of a number of species under dacostae.

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