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Taxonomic congruence is the degree to which classifications of the same organisms postulate the same groupings. Identical classifications are said to be perfectly congruent.
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Crisci, J.V. (1983). Taxonomic Congruence: A Brief Discussion. In: Felsenstein, J. (eds) Numerical Taxonomy. NATO ASI Series, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69024-2_12
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