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*Triceratops horrida*
Horrid, yes, but *Triceratops* is a she, not a he:
http://old.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%2376282
Hê is the feminine article, ho is masculine, o is neuter.
(It says "B" in there. There is an "A", see below, but that, too, is
feminine, and it means "voice/word", so it almost certainly wasn't meant
anyway.
http://old.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%2376281
http://old.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0058%3Aentry%3D%2324026
http://old.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0073%3Aentry%3D%237085)
It follows that, because of Art. 34.2 of the ICZN, *T. horridus* and *T.
prorsus* must immediately become *T. horrida* and *T. prorsa*, with
author and date unchanged (no formal emendation, the corrected versions
are _already_ correct and always have been):
http://www.iczn.org/iczn/includes/page.jsp?article=34
And this goes for all other -ops names, all the way to *Eryops
megacephal...a*.
Have I overlooked something? Is the dictionary wrong?