Etymology

Luc et al. (1998) commented that the specific epithet of X. brevicolle should be modified from brevicolle (= short neck) to brevicollum to conform to Latin grammar. Collum, i, neuter substantive must remain as such; 'colle' does not exist in Latin. After more than a decade, Monteiro (2010) argued that modifying the specific name of X. brevicolle to brevicollum proposed by Luc et al. was an “unjustified emendation”. This is because the neuter Latin substantive (noun) collum, i, meaning neck, has been used in Zoology Nomenclature as an adjective of two terminations, viz collis, for masculine and feminine genders, and colle, for neuter gender, in the composition of specific name. The possibility of treating a noun as an adjective is supported by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN). Therefore, the original species name, X. brevicolle should be preserved unaltered (Monteiro 2010).

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