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Q. Identify the scientific name which is a tautonym

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Tautonym is an informal term to indicate a scientific name of a species in which both specific and generic epithets names have the same spellings e.g., Bison bison, Malus malus.
Malus (apple) is a genus of about $30-35$ species of family rosaceae.