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{{Concept
|label=vertical classification
|definition=Classification focusing on [[common]] descent, tending to unite [[ancestral]] and descendant groups of a [[phyletic]] line into a single higher [[taxon]], thereby separating them from contemporaneous taxa having reached a similar [[grade]] of evolutionary change.
|see also=[[horizontal classification]]
}}
{{Concept scheme relation
|scheme=Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology
}}