Taxacom: Tropicos and gender of names

[Richard Zander]

For those with problems determining proper gender endings for taxon names, Tropicos (botancal names) is a good resource.
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How to:

In the search box, you can use % as a wild card.
Examples:

Neo% gives you all names beginning with "Neo"
Neo% fili% gives all genus and species starting thusly with with all endings.
% %coma gives all epithets ending with "coma"
% coma% gives all epithets starting with "coma"
% %sis gives all epithese ending with "sis"
%zz% gives all generic and higher names with "zz" in them.

If you have a genus and want to name it with an epithet like oceanus or maybe oceana or maybe oceanum, see what other authors have used for your particular genus or try a genus with a similar ending....

Rare endings are probably wrong and probably recent names, as most ancients knew their Latin.

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Richard H. Zander
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