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| | Zoological Citation Notes -- C |
 | | " Chen Boie, 1822, and the final component of Alopochen Stejneger in Kingsley 1885, Cyanochen Bonaparte 1856, and Neochen Oberholser, 1918, are the transliterated Greek noun Xen (goose), which is masculine as well as feminine. |
 | | A genus-group name that is or ends in a word of common or variable gender (masculine or feminine) is to be treated as masculine unless its author, when establishing the name, stated that it is feminine or treated it as feminine in combination with an adjectival species group name (ICZN 1999, Art. |
 | | Because all four names were established in combination with a feminine adjectival name ( Chen hyperborea, Neochen jubata, Alopochen aegyptiaca, Cyanochen cyanoptera), they are all feminine. |
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