Thank you José. That is fully correct and I overlooked to make that comment. A good example for that is my lapsus inMessage: 1 Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 06:42:47 -0400 From: "Jose A. Izquierdo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>The derived name is female... so the specific epithet should be female. Notice I said should, remember one of the quirks of nomenclature rules is that even though concordance in gender is required, an author can mispell a name and the name still be valid. describing P. besseae var. flava. Of course it has to be "flavum". (Mea culpa). regards Guido -- Prof. Dr. Guido J. Braem Naunheimer Str. 17 35633 Lahnau Deutschland/Germany |
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