Re: Genetive Emendations (Khaan mckennai, etc.)

["David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

>   I'm surprised. I was aware that irrelevant of the nominative,
> the genitive must follow gender, as much as it rankles....

Apparently in ICZN, but not in Latin. Caligula, Sulla... are all men and
get -ae in the genitive, fagus, pinus, quercus... are trees (by definition
feminine in Latin, for religious reasons) and get -i. Nero's is Neronis,
Caesar's is Caesaris... (I've seen the spelling *Stygivenator/Aublysodon
molnaris*. No idea whether it was just a typo, and I've seen *S./A. molnari*
much more often, but from Latin grammar there's nothing to say against that.

>   Anyways, ICZN rules state that even if incorrectly formed or
> applied, after 1999, any name must be retained unless
> preoccipied. K. mckennai sticks by this application,

Definitely, I can't argue much with that.

> If you want
> to try to push for the emendations of all named ending in [...]
> -ii to become -ae, you're welcome to try....

These are the cases HP Ben Creisler explained (*Pentaceratops sternbergii*,
*Hypsilophodon foxii*...) which I had read should all be emended into -i
following ICZN. Apparently that's false...