Species with Multiple Common Names (Competition)

Goldcrest = Woodcock Pilot
Striped Skunk = Fart Squirrel
Javelina = Collared Peccary
Brown Mystery Snail = Pointed Campeloma
 
Sulcata Tortoise/African Spur-thigh Tortoise/African Spurred Tortoise
Button Quail/King Quail/Blue-breasted Quail
Blood Python/Short-tailed Python
Rodrigues Fruit Bat/Rodrigues Flying Fox
European Legless Lizard/Sheltopusik
Florida Cooter/Coastal Plain Cooter
Central Bearded Dragon/Inland Bearded Dragon
Prehensile-tailed Skink/Monkey-tailed Skink
Caribbean Flamingo/American Flamingo
Nene/Hawaiian Goose
Magellan Goose/Upland Goose
Andean Bear/Spectacled Bear
Cougar/Mountain Lion/Puma
Chilean Pudu/Southern Pudu
Tammar Wallaby/Dama Wallaby
Red-rumped Agouti/Brazilian Agouti
Schmidt's Guenon/Schmidt's Red-tailed Monkey
Aoudad/Barbary Sheep
Geoffery's Spider Monkey/Black-handed Spider Monkey
Brown Capuchin/Tufted Capuchin/Black-capped Capuchin
White-bearded Wildebeest/Black Wildebeest

Amongst many others.

@Dyl0526 we were just talking about this topic the other day!
 
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Greater bamboo lemur - broad-nosed gentle lemur
Brown shark - sand bar shark - thick skin shark - queriman shark
Galagos - bushbabies
 
Largetooth Sawfish - Freshwater Sawfish - Leichhardt's Sawfish - Wide Sawfish

American Anglerfish - All-Mouth - Bellowsfish - Devilfish - Molligut - Headfish - Satchel-Mouth - Wide-Gape - Goosefish

Largehead Hairtail - Cutlassfish - Australian Hairtail - Cox's Hairtail - Pacific Cutlassfish - Japanese Cutlassfish - Atlantic Cutlassfish - Northern Hairtail - Ribbonfish - Beltfish
 
Chozchoz - mountain degu - bori - boris
Hammer-headed bat - horsehead bat
Tiger cat - oncilla - tigrine
Chinese mountain cat - Chinese desert cat
Caracal - caracal lynx - African lynx
Jaguarundi - jaguarondi - eyra - otter cat
Bay cat - Bornean red cat
Spanish lynx - Iberian lynx
Black-footed cat - anthill tiger
 
Kodkod - Chilean cat - guigna - huiña
Pampas cat - colocolo
Monito de monte - colocolo
Asiatic golden cat - Temminck's golden cat
Honey possum - honey mouse - noolbenger
Koala - Australian bear - native bear - teddy bear
Eurasian lynx - northern lynx
 
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Surprised this hasn’t been mentioned yet
Przewalski’s Horse - Mongolian Wild Horse - Asian Wild Horse - Takhi
 
Gloomy Octopus - Common Sydney Octopus

Torres Strait Pigeon - Torresian Imperial Pigeon - Nutmeg Pigeon - Australian Pied Imperial Pigeon

Skunk Cleaner Shrimp - Red Skunk Cleaner Shrimp - Scarlet Skunk Cleaner Shrimp - Pacific Cleaner Shrimp

Coral Banded Shrimp - Banded Coral Shrimp - Boxer Shrimp - Banded Cleaner Shrimp

Barramundi - Asian Seabass - Palmer Perch

Portuguese Man O' War - Bluebottle

Bluebottle Fish - Man O' War Fish

Australian Box Jelly - Sea Wasp
 
Numbat: Noombat and Walpurti
Commerson’s dolphin: Jacobita, Piebald Dolphin, Skunk Dolphin and Panda Dolphin
West African Crocodile: Sacred crocodile
Ganges Dolphin: Susu and shushuk
Indus Dolphin: bhulan
 
Clark's Anemonefish - Yellowtail Clownfish

Maroon Clownfish - Spinecheek Anemonefish

Whitetail Dascyllus - Whitetailed Footballer - Threestripe Damselfish - Humbug

Sixline Wrasse - Sixstripe Wrasse - Pyjama Wrasse

Yellowtail Coris - Clown Coris - African Coris - Gaimard's Wrasse - Redfinned Rainbowfish - Rainbow Wrasse - Red Coris

Regal Tang - Hippo Tang - Blue Tang - Wedgetail Blue Tang - Palette Surgeonfish - Indo-Pacific Blue Tang - Hepatus Tang - Flagtail Surgeonfish
 
There are lots of Aussie birds that have different common names depending on where you’re from. In Central West NSW we use the names marked in bold:

Magpie-lark - Murray Magpie - Mudlark - Peewee
Masked Lapwing - Plover
Hardhead - White-eyed Duck
Maned Duck - Wood Duck
Australasian Grebe - Diver Duck
Crested Pigeon - Topknot Pigeon
Little Pied Cormorant - Shag
White-faced Heron - Blue Crane
Brown Falcon - Chicken Hawk
Dusky Moorhen - Water Chook
Cockatiel - Quarrion
Red-winged Parrot - Crimsonwing
Crimson Rosella - Mountain Lory
Eastern Rosella - Rosella
Red-rumped Parrot - Grass Parrot
Southern Boobook - Morepork
White-thoated Treecreeper - Woodpecker
Superb Fairywren - Blue Wren
Noisy Friarbird - Leatherhead
White-winged Chough - Black Magpie
Scarlet Robin - Robin Redbreast

But lots of these common names are being lost now because the old-timers used them, and the younger generation use the more widely accepted common names. Still, a peewee will always be a peewee to me :)
 
Snow Leopard vs. Ounce
False Gharial vs. Sunda Gharial vs. Malayan Gharial vs. Tomistoma
Pale-Throated Sloth vs. Ai
Hippopotamus vs. Hippo vs. Common Hippopotamus vs. River Hippopotamus
Dromedary Camel vs. Arabian Camel
Bawean Deer vs. Kulh's Hog Deer vs. Bawean Hog Deer
 
WalkingAgnatha said:
Do people really use that in Aus? I thought it was only NZ/only used to refer to the NZ ssp, considering it's a Maori word and all.
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Interesting, I didn’t know it was a Maori word. I’ve never seen it written here, it’s just what people call them because it’s the noise they make. I just assumed it was the same word, but I looked it up and the spelling here is mopoke.
 
akasha said:
Interesting, I didn’t know it was a Maori word. I’ve never seen it written here, it’s just what people call them because it’s the noise they make. I just assumed it was the same word, but I looked it up and the spelling here is mopoke.
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Oh wait, nvm I'm dumb ruru was Maori, I forgot.
 
akasha said:
Interesting, I didn’t know it was a Maori word. I’ve never seen it written here, it’s just what people call them because it’s the noise they make. I just assumed it was the same word, but I looked it up and the spelling here is mopoke.
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Typically it is Morepork in NZ and Boobook in Australia. Morepork is sometimes used in Australia as well, but more commonly it is Mopoke as you say. All versions are onomatopoeic, as is the Maori name Ruru. The name Mopoke is commonly used in Australia for Tawny Frogmouths too (from the belief that it is the frogmouths making the call).
 
American Bittern: Dunk-a-Doo
Australian Ibis: Australian Sacred Ibis, Australian White Ibis, Bin Chicken, Dump Chook, Dumpster Diver, Picnic Pirate, Sandwich Snatcher, Tip Turkey
Black-bellied Plover: Beetlehead, Chucklehead, Gray Plover, Gump
Common Brushtail Possum: Kiwi Bear
Common Nighthawk: Bullbat
Eastern Kingbird: Bee-Martin
Fisher: Black Cat, Fisher Cat
Franklin’s Gull: Prairie Dove, Prairie Pigeon, Rosy Dove
Glaucous Gull: Burgomaster
Koala: Native Bear
Red Knot: Robin-Snipe
Ruddy Turnstone: Calico Plover
Surf Scoter: Skunkhead
Spruce Grouse: Fool Hen
Yellow-rumped Warbler: Butterbutt
 
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