>Is it allowable to form a new genus name simply by
>altering the GENDER of an existing name?
Yes. The single letter difference rule applies to endings too. (And it so
happens that Cancellarius Montfort, 1810, is a synonym of Cancellaria
Lamarck, 1799.)
Gary
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