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When you are referring to a species, you use what it called binomial nomenclature. This means that you use the name of the genus followed by the "specific epithet".

It's the name of the genus that is always capitalized, so Homo sapiens (modern humans) or Metasequoia glyptostroboides(dawn redwood).

It is also important to either use italics or to underline the full species name.

There are tons of rules about how to properly name new species and subspecies etc., and things change all the time, but capitalization and italics are definitely what you need to know here.

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