... some trivial query :: 13 JUL 2018 : 4 posts by 3 authors. Often we find scientific names where genus and species are made of same names, for example: Cajanus cajan, Samanea saman, Sesbania sesban, and so on. Are such scientific names known by some term ? I got response in facebook group Indian Flora - tautonym. I went on to find on internet - any botanical list of tautonyms - I could not find it so far. There are many sites providing zoological. I also see the names are ditto (genus & species) in case of zoological. Just came across page in Wikipedia where the opening lines say: Such names are allowed in zoology, but not in botany, where the two parts of the name of a species must differ ... as small as one letter ... Thus I assume there is no good name like tautonym in case of botany. |
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