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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.)