Taxacom: A compromise solution (was Re: Single official lists of taxa (sensu Doug Yanega many proposals to this list))

[Adam Cotton]

On 06/07/2023 17:12, David Redei via Taxacom wrote:
> No, sorry, I absolutely do not like Adam's suggestion. Then genera will
> contain some names with masculine, some with feminine, and some with neuter
> ending, and sorry, I do not want to remember that "OK, Bombus lapidarius,
> Bombus ruderatus, Bombus alpinus, Bombus confusus, Bombus auricomus and
> Bombus balteatus are all masculine, but Bombus germanica and Bombus pulchra
> are feminine and Bombus nigrum is neuter, because they were recently
> transferred from other genera and they kept their former ending. (Imaginary
> names.) Throwing away rules and making people remember each and every name
> one by one is considerably more difficult than following rules. People can
> cite examples of problematic adjectives, but the fact is that the
> overwhelming majority of the adjectives are easy to handle.

You seem to have missed the whole point, you would no longer need to 
worry whether a genus and a species name is masculine, feminine or 
neuter EVER again, they would become names that never change.

Adam.