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I capitalize, but seeing how they are a species' name, you don't need to.

 

Nobody really capitalizes human, or dog, or cat.

Right, you definitely don't need to -- it is just like human or dog, etc. as Grochi said.

 

However, if you're saying "Matoran Takua" then matoran would be capitalized, as it's part of the name, so to speak. But otherwise it's not necessary, and in fact might be considered grammatically incorrect to do so. =P I'm not completely sure on that, but yeah, I do know that it's not needed at least. =]

 

 

I'd say you should do, just because it looks better that way. I know you don't do it on human or dog or cat, but still. Lowercase just doesn't look right in this case.

 

- Tilius

The general english rule is: If the noun is a specific person, place, thing, or idea, capitalize it. For example:

 

Bob's Burger Shack

 

the burger shack that Bob owns

 

-Gb