AQUATICAL•LATIN

An ongoing project investigating the etymology of the scientific names applied to aquatic species.

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AQUATICAL•LATIN featured in Practical Fishkeeping April 2018

Posted on 20th February 201820th February 2018 by Timataquaticallatin

News – AQUATICAL•LATIN, the book, featured in the April edition of Practical Fishkeeping magazine.

Many thanks to Nathan Hill for the review below.

Practical Fishkeeping is the UK’s Number 1 fishkeeping magazine.

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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

1957 Maurice Kottelat (1957 - ) was born on this day. He is a Swiss ichthyologist specialising in Eurasian freshwater fishes, primarily interested in loaches (Balitoridae, Nemacheilidae, etc.), Cyprinidae, and Sisoridae. Honorary Research Associate at the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, Singapore (1994). Founding editor of the journal Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters (1989), president of the European Ichthyological Society (1997 - 2007). Author of 280 scientific publications, including Freshwater fishes of Western Indonesia and Sulawesi (1997), Fishes of Laos (2001), Freshwater fishes of Northern Vietnam (2001), Handbook of European freshwater fishes (2007), and The fishes of inland waters of Southeast Asia: a catalogue and core bibliography of the fishes known to occur in freshwaters, mangroves and estuaries (2013). Discoverer, along with Tan Heok Hui, of Paedocypris progenetica, considered to be the smallest fish in the world.
Kottelat has described numerous taxa and is honoured in the names of two genera of fishes and in the names of a number of species under kottelati.

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