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. 2024 Apr 4;1197:57–91. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1197.114679

Table 6.

The PCA loadings for the first two principal components for the measured characters of Chiloglanis species and lineages from southern Africa.

Principal component 1 2
Eigenvalue 90.91 70.84
% variance 22.46 17.50
Adipose fin to caudal peduncle length -0.02 -0.02
Adipose-fin base length 0.05 -0.01
Adipose-fin height -0.04 0.00
Anal-fin base length 0.03 -0.05
Anal-fin length along longest ray -0.03 -0.06
Body depth at anus -0.02 -0.04
Body depth at dorsal-fin insertion -0.09 -0.06
Caudal peduncle depth -0.05 -0.02
Caudal peduncle length 0.08 -0.10
Dorsal-fin to adipose fin length -0.02 -0.02
Dorsal-fin base length -0.17 0.08
Dorsal-spine length -0.06 0.04
Pre-anal length -0.16 0.17
Pre-dorsal length -0.10 0.11
Pre-pectoral length -0.08 0.10
Pre-pelvic length -0.12 0.15
Pectoral-spine length 0.04 0.01
Pectoral-fin length 0.04 0.03
Pelvic-fin length 0.00 0.02
Width at pectoral-fin insertion -0.04 0.06
Pelvic-fin interspace 0.00 0.02
Head length -0.18 0.07
Anterior nares interspace 0.14 -0.08
Eye diameter (vertical axis) 0.11 -0.03
Lower lip length 0.02 0.37
Mandibular tooth row width -0.16 -0.05
Maxillary barbel length 0.60 -0.41
Mouth width 0.35 0.21
Orbital interspace -0.18 -0.14
Oral disc length 0.22 0.34
Oral disc width 0.39 0.41
Pre-maxillary tooth-patch length 0.00 0.09
Pre-maxillary tooth-patch width 0.23 0.24
Posterior nares interspace 0.13 -0.13
Snout length -0.05 0.35
Upper lip length -0.09 0.15