Tyrannosaurus
16-05-09, 22:24
Tyrannosaurus rex.
As in all cases of binomial nomenclature, you capitalize the genus name, never the species name. And there is no plural form, therefore you may enounter a single Tyrannosaurus or a pack of Tyrannosaurus, but not "Tyrannosauruses," "Tyrannosauri," or "Tyrannosaurus rexes."
Of course, if you refer to other members of my family but not necessarily my genus (i.e. Daspletosaurus, Albertosaurus, etc.) we are collectively called Tyrannosauridae, or tyrannosaurs.
And now for a note about abbreviation. The Genus name is abbreviated with a period, not a dash, and the species name is never, ever capitalized. So that would be T. rex, not T. Rex or T-Rex. Similarly, your and your kind are H. sapiens if we wanted to abbreviate and not H-Sapiens, get it?
Having written this all now, I will trust all of you to commit it to memory. If not, I will find your real address, visit your house, and murder you. This message brought to you by the Cretaceous God-King.
As in all cases of binomial nomenclature, you capitalize the genus name, never the species name. And there is no plural form, therefore you may enounter a single Tyrannosaurus or a pack of Tyrannosaurus, but not "Tyrannosauruses," "Tyrannosauri," or "Tyrannosaurus rexes."
Of course, if you refer to other members of my family but not necessarily my genus (i.e. Daspletosaurus, Albertosaurus, etc.) we are collectively called Tyrannosauridae, or tyrannosaurs.
And now for a note about abbreviation. The Genus name is abbreviated with a period, not a dash, and the species name is never, ever capitalized. So that would be T. rex, not T. Rex or T-Rex. Similarly, your and your kind are H. sapiens if we wanted to abbreviate and not H-Sapiens, get it?
Having written this all now, I will trust all of you to commit it to memory. If not, I will find your real address, visit your house, and murder you. This message brought to you by the Cretaceous God-King.