Re: *Dalianraptor cuhe* and *Sinornithosaurus haoianus* (short!)

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

>  This is irrelevant, however, as the ICZN does not permit respelling a 
> name
> anymore because gender issues between epithets is incorrect or the gender
> applied to an honoree is "wrong".

It apparently allows wrong gender endings of nouns that contradict the sex 
of the honoree. It does apparently not allow wrong gender endings of 
adjectives that contradict the gender of the genus name.
I think Articles 34.2 and 31.2 are unambiguous:
       "The ending of a Latin or latinized adjectival or participial 
species-group name must agree in gender with the generic name with which it 
is at any time combined [Art. 31.2]; if the gender ending is incorrect it 
must be changed accordingly (the author and date of the name remain 
unchanged [Art. 50.3.2])." http://www.iczn.org/iczn/index.jsp?article=34
       "A species-group name, if it is or ends in a Latin or latinized 
adjective or participle in the nominative singular, must agree in gender 
with the generic name with which it is at any time combined." 
http://www.iczn.org/iczn/index.jsp?article=31

I remember reading about some people having wanted to change this (when the 
current ICZN edition was being produced) and having been defeated.