Talk:List of triple tautonyms

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Are there any quad tautonyms?[edit]

Out of curiosity :) – Anne drew 17:41, 15 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

An animal's scientific name consists of at most three words - genus, species, and subspecies (barring infrasubspecific names, which aren't covered by the ICZN Code) Spizaetus (talk) 19:30, 5 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose if you interpolate subgenera, species groups/superspecies, and subspecies groups (if they exist) in the name, you could get up to six? Like Exampleus (Exampleus) (exampleus) exampleus (exampleus) exampleus (which is pretty unwieldy)

(Those extra names don't technically count toward the number of words in a scientific name, though) Spizaetus (talk) 19:39, 5 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Necessity of separate article[edit]

I'm not sure this article is really an independent concept from List of tautonyms - it can just be thought of as a (currently incomplete) list of the species in the latter article that happen to not be monotypic. In addition, the great majority of subspecies listed here (or that are currently missing but could be added here) don't have (and probably don't warrant) independent wiki articles from their parental species, so this list is mostly just redirects to the overarching species anyway. Accordingly, is this worth keeping as a separate article, or would it be better to just merge it into the main tautonym list article (even as a single sentence in the intro along the lines of "For all polytypic species in this list, the name of the nominate subspecies is a triple tautonym (e.g., [triple tautonym example of your choice])")? Spizaetus (talk) 20:18, 5 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]