• Hegar@fedia.io
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    7 hours ago

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

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      4 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?

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        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.