2023-07-26 12:20:09
the spelling pteranodonte is the recommended to name the flying animal of the era of the dinosaurs, no pteranodón in pteranodon.
In the news about the fossil auction in New York you can find examples where it is improperly written: “A flying pteranodon skeleton is also up for auction” or “Not only among the largest well-preserved Pteranodons” .
In Spanish, it has settled assign ending -donte to the adaptations of scientific names that end in -donby analogy with mastodonscientific name Mastodon. This is also the case, among others, of the iguanodonte and the anisodont, collected in the academic dictionary. Therefore, the recommended way is pteranodontewhich is also the majority in use.
The scientific name, which is invariable, is capitalized and italicized (as in “Fossils belong to an individual of the genus Pteranodon“), while pteranodontein round and lowercase, is the adapted common name, which forms the plural pteranodontes.
As for the group pt- initialacademic spelling indicates that, in scientific-technical fields, is frequent and correct maintain certain initial consonant combinations, as in psychology, mnemonic y Ptolemaic
Therefore, in the examples above, it would have been more appropriate to write “The skeleton of a flying pteranodont is also up for auction” and “It is not only among the largest well-preserved pteranodonts.”
See also
➤ scientific names of animals and plants
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