Conspecificity

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Conspecificity is a concept in biology. Two or more individual organisms, populations, or taxa are termed conspecific if they are considered to belong to the same biological species.

The antonym is heterospecificity: two individuals are are heterospecific if they are considered to belong to different biological species.

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