congeneric
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He arrives at this conclusion from a geographical survey of what he would call the "whole field of distribution," and "the probable historical connection between these congeneric species."
From Life: Its True Genesis by R. W. Wright
What it is we already have seen: a material reality, and as such divisible into parts, placed in the world in the midst of a congeneric multitude.
From The Reform of Education by Giovanni Gentile
Isotypical: a genus described from more than one species, all of which are congeneric.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
The seats, however, of barbarous hordes, in a waste and almost desert country, are seldom stationary for any continuance; and the Ballogees and Sewees are probably congeneric tribes, much intermixed, and having no fixed boundaries.
Suffice it to say, that he frankly accepts the inferences derived from the whole course of observation, and contemplates a probable historical connection between congeneric species.
From Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism by Asa Gray