• Hegar
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    97 hours ago

    Species named like this are called “autonymous”. Like rattus rattus or puffinus puffinus.

    • @[email protected]
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      44 hours ago

      I was interested in a list of species like this, but couldn’t find anything when searching for “autonym”. Did you mean “Tautonym” instead?

      • Hegar
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        43 hours ago

        Oh doh yes I do! Once again I got tautonym and autonym mixed up. Autonym is within a species - like homo sapiens sapiens to distinguish from homo sapiens neanderthalensis.