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A list of 281 words by hernesheir.

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Scientific names provide a special class of reduplicative words (tautonyms). This is a list of scientific names of organisms whose genus and species (and subspecies) names are identical, such as Bison bison and the fish Lota lota. I follow nomenclatural convention by capitalizing the genus name. Species and subspecies epithets appear in lower case.

Some organisms have a common name that is iterative: cuscus, hihi, brubru, boubou, motmot, bulbul, piopio, caracara, pipipi, tsetse etc. These I don't list here, but may do so in a separate list.

My list Hyphenated Repeats contains names of many organisms that are hyphenated reduplicative words.

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  • ruzuzu commented on the list name-name

    Love it, love it! Check out this other tautonym list: Reduplicating animals.

    July 19, 2010

  • hernesheir commented on the list name-name

    Aye-aye, Cap'n.

    July 19, 2010

  • ruzuzu commented on the list name-name

    *Favorited favorited*

    June 22, 2011

  • ruzuzu commented on the list name-name

    I just added Rutilus rutilus.

    January 20, 2012

  • ruzuzu commented on the list name-name

    And today I added Janthina janthina.

    January 31, 2012

  • deinonychus commented on the list name-name

    I have been impressed by this list for some time now, and today i finally found something to add: the fly Anthrax anthrax.

    July 16, 2012

  • deinonychus commented on the list name-name

    ...and now I find Volva volva just one day later!

    July 17, 2012

  • kalayzich commented on the list name-name

    does this count?

    See Damaliscus pygargus ssp. pygargus

    July 29, 2012

  • kalayzich commented on the list name-name

    I just added Meles meles,Lutra lutra,Martes martes,Capreolus capreolus

    I have another 29 to add when you contact me

    July 29, 2012

  • kalayzich commented on the list name-name

    I just added 29 to your list

    Our Australian swimmers had a shock loss

    July 30, 2012

  • deinonychus commented on the list name-name

    Damn, I just saw "Dugong dugong" and headed straight for this list, but it turns out that it's actually Dugong dugon. Oh well, at least I got to see some pretty pictures of fetal dugong skeletons...

    April 2, 2014

  • deinonychus commented on the list name-name

    Yay, I found a new one! (Sprattus sprattus) It's been a while since last time (is there a way to tell when a word was listed?), but there are still unlisted species out there waiting...

    November 22, 2015

  • bilby commented on the list name-name

    You could tag the word with a date I guess. I can't see that date-listed info is visible from our end even if it's in the database.

    November 22, 2015

  • deinonychus commented on the list name-name

    Hmm, I'm too lazy for that. I'll guess I'll have to survive without access to all the data!

    November 23, 2015

  • bilby commented on the list name-name

    Drattus drattus!

    November 23, 2015

  • qroqqa commented on the list name-name

    My favourite is the Burmese tiger (Surprisibus! surprisibus!). You know, when the coyote uses a Burmese tiger trap.

    November 24, 2015

  • vanderpink commented on the list name-name

    Excellent choice, qroqqa.

    November 24, 2015

  • deinonychus commented on the list name-name

    It's been a while but today I found another one! (Xanthostigma xanthostigma)

    June 9, 2017

  • deinonychus commented on the list name-name

    Nothing for 6 months, and now three in a week!

    February 4, 2018

  • deinonychus commented on the list name-name

    i still love this list and keep coming back with my little names to add to the big pile

    March 7, 2023

  • ry commented on the list name-name

    I had no idea there were so many of these

    March 24, 2023