Re: *Dalianraptor cuhe* and *Sinornithosaurus haoianus* (short!)

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

David Marjanovic (david.marjanovic@gmx.at) wrote:

<*S. haoianus* ... The honored Professor Hao is a woman; this seems to be the
source of the confusion about the specific epithet. Adding -ian- creates an
adjective, and adjectives agree with the nouns they describe (macho man 
*Sinornithosaur_us_*), not with the nouns they may be derived of.>

  This is irrelevant, however, as the ICZN does not permit respelling a name
anymore because gender issues between epithets is incorrect or the gender
applied to an honoree is "wrong". The name is spelled consistently throughout,
and unless there was an error in the transcription or printing or in the
submitted manuscript that would require the authors to state they intended the
masculine gender. As it is, they considered the term to be adequate to
referring to a feminine gender, however incorrectly they might be on that, and
this doesn't constitute a reversible error the ICZN would recognize it, as I
read the current Rules.

  Cheers,

Jaime A. Headden
http://bitestuff.blogspot.com/

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)

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