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other rexes



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.

Peter Buchholz
Stang1996@aol.com