Table 2 Summary of uncorrected pairwise (p) distances at different taxonomic levels
Comparisons within | Number of specimens | Taxa | Number of comparisons | Minimum distance (%) | Maximum distance (%) | Mean Dist ± SD (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Species | 106 | 12 | 858 | 0.00 | 2.13 | 0.11 ± 0.16 |
Genus | 50 | 3 | 123 | 3.31 | 9.92 | 7.81 ± 2.65 |
Family | 100 | 3 | 1091 | 8.97 | 17.32 | 12.64 ± 2.36 |
Order | 35 | 1 | 96 | 15.53 | 17.17 | 16.46 ± 0.36 |
Class | 108 | 1 | 3574 | 12.80 | 22.02 | 16.61 ± 1.75 |