Troglodytes troglodytes
Crex crex
Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax
Puffinus puffinus
Cinclus cinclus
Meles meles
Lutra lutra
Crangon crangon
Melolontha melolontha
Typhaeus typhoeus almost made it.
I wonder if there is a pattern that the more active the taxonomist, the more they repeat themselves. Linnaeus was probably turning out 50 new species per day and once he had come up with one apt name, he maybe couldn’t be bothered thinking of another.
Not allowed in the plant world! But sometimes we get close, like with: Thalictrum thalictroides, you know, the Thalictrum that’s thalictrum-like.
(The near-tautonym is the result of a transfer between genera.)
Similar things also happen in the animal world - take this African fly in a monotypic genus Meromacroides meromacriformis (not yet on iNat) - meaning it’s like the New World genus Meromacrus: “no - it really is like that”.