Extra extra

By googling the flavor text, we discover that Extra extra is the scientific name of a species of sea snail. This, in addition to the “×2” indicator next to the images, clues that we’re looking for other scientific names where the genus and species are identical.

The first set of images represents tautonyms, or scientific names where the genus and species are the same word. A useful reference is Wikipedia’s list of tautonyms.

The second set of images are the common names for the tautonyms; these can be found on Wikipedia.

Taking the red and blue circled letters in order from 1-8 gives us two answers to this puzzle: AMYGDALA and HABITATS.

Appendix: Images and animal names

Image 1	Scientific Name	Common Name	Image 2
	A N S E R A N S E R ⑧		G R E Y L A G G O O S E ❸
	A X I S A X I S ②		C H I T A L ①
	D I V E S D I V E S ④		M E L O D I O U S B L A C K B I R D ❻
	I D E A I D E A ⑥		L I N N A E U S ' S I D E A ❶
	L Y N X L Y N X ❼		E U R A S I A N L Y N X ❽
	M O D U L U S M O D U L U S ❺		B U T T O N S N A I L ③
	M O P S M O P S ❷		M A L A Y A N F R E E - T A I L E D B A T ⑤
	R E G U L U S R E G U L U S ❹		G O L D C R E S T ⑦

Authors' Notes