Taxacom: demystifying gender agreement ( was Re: Removals of offending scientific names)

Fri Jun 23 12:29:38 CDT 2023

On 23-Jun-23 12:42 p.m., George Beccaloni via Taxacom wrote:
> If species names are just labels/unique identifiers, and the original
> published name is the most important, and gender agreement is complex to
> get right and is confusing to amateurs etc, and making a massive list of
> all names will be costly and difficult, and gender agreement is an outdated
> practise from a previous era, and gender agreement might not be regarded as
> 'inclusive' in this day and age, then its seems like a jolly good idea to
> get rid of it and revert to the original published names!

* but - oops - that would require changing all the names of 
nonlepidopteran species that have had their names changed for gender 
agreement with differently-gendered new genera they've been shuffled into.

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