Taxacom: Subject: Re: demystifying gender agreement, was Re: Removals, of offending scientific names

Mon Jun 26 11:00:32 CDT 2023

On 26-Jun-23 11:08 a.m., Leslie Watling via Taxacom wrote:
> So, I may take a wee bit of offense at the suggestion that my taxonomic
> work is suspect because I don't want to spend months figuring out the
> gender agreement for a new species I would like to describe.

* does anyone have any data on the percentage of generic names that are 
of ambiguous gender, or specific epithets that are ambiguously 
adjectives or nouns in apposition?

fred.
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