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tautonym /ˈtɔːtə(ʊ)nɪm /noun Botany & ZoologyA scientific name in which the same word is used for both genus and species, for example Vulpes vulpes (the red fox).In an attempt to gain acceptance for the use of duplicate binomials, MacMillan proposed the tautonym A. apios....- Bird names in which the genus and species are identical except for capitalisation are apparently called tautonyms.
- There are 82 species of birds whose scientific names are tautonyms - that is, birds for which the two parts of the scientific name are the same.
Derivativestautonymy noun ...- Instead we should look to Speusippus' analysis of tautonymy and heteronymy and bypass eponymy altogether.
- Castor fiber Linnaeus, 1758 is therefore the type species of Castor by Linnaean tautonymy.
- The type of Amphidesma must, by tautonymy, be regarded as A. donailla.
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