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iNaturalist flag with note on Hemiandrus superba https://www.inaturalist.org/flags/603622 may be of interest #60

Closed mjy closed 9 months ago

mjy commented 9 months ago

FYI there is a conversation perhaps of interest here: https://www.inaturalist.org/flags/603622. Might be good to have a curator chime in there. I let Scott (iNat admin) know of this issue tracker, but would be good to announce it there too.

danilohegg commented 9 months ago

See the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature: https://www.iczn.org/the-code/the-code-online/

Article 34.2: The ending of a Latin or latinized adjectival or participial species-group name must agree in gender with the generic name with which it is at any time combined [Art. 31.2]; if the gender ending is incorrect it must be changed accordingly (the author and date of the name remain unchanged [Art. 50.3.2]).

Hemiandrus is male gender; Superbus is an adj., and needs to take the same gender as the noun it is associated with

typophyllum commented 9 months ago

The Latin word is indeed an adjective. Adding this information to TW as well as establishing Hemiandrus to be masculine automatically adapts the name to Hemiandrus superbus.