Talk:Aglaophyton

Taxonomic gender
Actually, Aglaophyton majus since it is neutral. Uocila (talk) 13:16, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
 * In taxonomic practice, Aglaophyton is treated as a masculine noun, despite the apparent neuter ending. All significant paleobotanical texts use Aglaophyton major as the name.  If you believe this is an error, you would need to propose a nomenclatorial correction in a scientific journal such as Taxon.  Wikipedia cannot publish original research, so we must follow the name used in the literature, even if we believe it contains an error. --EncycloPetey (talk) 04:08, 1 September 2009 (UTC)


 * I am a palaeobotanist as well and have some experience with the Code rules. Compounds on -phyton are the case of the article 62.2.c. The correction of adjective ending is not regarded by the Code as a nomenclatural change according to 32.7. If I have an occasion to mention Aglaophyton majus in a publication, I will do it in a grammatically correct form, of course.--Uocila (talk) 07:19, 28 September 2009 (UTC)


 * This is now an issue that can be added as a comment in the article, since papers by well-known palaeobotanists have now begun using majus, so I have added a reference to this. MisterCDE (talk) 23:27, 28 April 2018 (UTC)