Re: other rexes

[John Schneiderman <dino@revelation.unomaha.edu>]

On Tue, 16 May 1995 Stang1996@aol.com wrote:

> I believe that another rex is Aliwalia rex.
> 
> Aliwalia, Othneilia, and Edmarka brings up the subject of adjectives agreing
> in gender with the noun that they are describing.  Shouldn't The species
> names of these two dinosaurs be regina instead of rex?  Or, shouldn't the
> generic titles be changed to Aliwalus and Edmarkus?  I would think that the
> first option should be the action taken because a species describes a genus
> (grammatically speaking), so it should change its gender according to the
> gender of the genus.
> 
> So anyway, according to me (untill someone informs otherwise) the two
> dinosaurs should be known as Aliwalia regina, Othneilia regina, and Edmarka re
> gina.
> 

Look at the way the Queen of England signs her name....last time I looked 
it was "Elizabeth Rex". So gender does not have much to do with generic 
titles. If sex of a specific species of dinosaur can be determined...like 
say, a Tyrannosaurus named "Sue"...then we mould have to label the beast 
Tyrannosaurus regina!

The title "rex" or "king" is masculine even if used by a female...

---John Schneiderman (dino@revelation.unomaha.edu)