List of tautonyms

The following is a list of tautonyms: zoological names of species consisting of two identical words (the generic name and the specific name have the same spelling). Such names are allowed in zoology, but not in botany, where the two parts of the name of a species must differ (though differences as small as one letter are permitted, as in the jujube (Ziziphus zizyphus)).

Mammals

Alces alces Linnaeus, 1758 — Eurasian elk, moose
Axis axis Erxleben, 1777 — chital
Bison bison Linnaeus, 1758 — American bison
Capreolus capreolus Linnaeus, 1758 — European roe, roe deer
Caracal caracal Schreber, 1776 — caracal
Chinchilla chinchilla Lichtenstein, 1829 — short-tailed chinchilla
Chiropotes chiropotes
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