Tautonym is when the genus and species are the same, write below an example! And try not to use google! :wink: I start! Curaeus curaeus! Austral blackbird, which is also, triple tautonym :P

Bison bison, a bison :laughing:

Tautonyms are surprisingly common, a couple examples include: Green basilisks Green iguanas Spotted fire salamanders Grass snakes Honorable mention: Gekko gecko , which is only one letter off from being a tautonym.

Bison bison bison is even better

Damn. I thought so but I didn’t want to use Google and break the rules.

Fun fact, tautonyms are actually forbidden in plant names, but that doesn’t stop people from trying: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, which translates from first Greek and then Latin as something like bear grapes bear’s grape Araucaria araucana is pretty confusing and then we have these suffixes -opsis a…

Gorilla gorilla gorilla. As Sam O’Nella so eloquently put it, “it’s the gorillest gorilla that ever gorilled”

Unrelated, but i thought of this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

Lets play the Tautonyms game!

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