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Re: [dinosaur] Shangyang, new enantiornithine from Early Cretaceous of China.
> Shangyang graciles gen. et sp. nov.
graciles would be the masculine/feminine plural. Species names aren't allowed
to be plural. I think this is automatically emended to the singular... but
while the masculine/feminine singular would be good old gracilis, the neuter
singular, gracile, occurs once in the paper (in the legend to fig. 2). So maybe
graciles is a miscorrection for intended gracile? (Perhaps even done by the
journal without informing the authors, as with Richardoestesia for
Ricardoestesia.)
Being Chinese and thus genderless (even for ICZN purposes), the genus name
doesn't help decide this question.
(The neuter plural, gracilia, does not occur in the paper.)