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Originally Posted by JohninAB
Hate to disagree but it is not Sander Vitreus, it is Sander vitreum if that new name was adopted. Used to be called Stizostedion vitreum.
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It is
Sander vitreus.
Latin words are either feminine or masculine. Specific epithets (
vitreus) must be in agreement with the generic epithets (
Sander)
When a generic name is changed, as it was in this case, from
Stizostedion to
Sander the specific name has to be in agreement.
That is why
vitreum (feminine) was changed to
vitreus (masculine).
Taxonomy can be a bitch, but it tells you everything about the organisms evolutionary lineage at present, and to some degree the past.