Taxacom: Can GPT-4 replace us

[Kipling W Will]

p.s. Note that gpt put the author, year in parentheses for the new
combinations without being prompted by me.
k.

On Sat, Jun 24, 2023 at 3:50 PM Kipling W Will via Taxacom <
taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:

>
>  Copied text responses from GPT-4 with a comment by me in brackets at the
> end:
>
> 1.
>
> To form the correct binomial combination with gender agreement for the
> carabid beetle species formerly known as Loxandrus tropicus Allen, 1972,
> now placed in the genus Oxycrepis, you would follow the rules of gender
> agreement in binomial nomenclature.
>
> The genus name "Oxycrepis" is neuter in gender, so the species epithet
> should also be in agreement with the neuter gender. In this case,
> "tropicus" needs to be modified to agree with the neuter gender of the new
> genus.
>
> To achieve gender agreement, the modified species epithet would be
> "tropicum" instead of "tropicus." Therefore, the new binomial combination
> for the carabid beetle species in the genus Oxycrepis would be "Oxycrepis
> tropicum" (Allen, 1972).