Table 2.
Descriptive statistics (mean ± SD) for 10 morphometric variables from each species.
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L. aeeclis (n = 5) |
L. edwardsi (n = 11) |
L. sp. nov. in IRS II (n = 6) |
L. sp. nov. in IRS III (n = 8) |
L. sahamalazensis (n = 7) |
L. dorsalis (n = 30) |
L. ankaranensis (n = 26) |
L. mustelinus (n = 7) |
Results of ANOVA | |||||||||||||||||
| Variable | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | df | F | p | ||||||
| Ear length [mm] | 30.72 | 0.83 | 31.75 | 1.93 | 33.60 | 0.99 | 33.41 | 2.10 | ** | 26.73 | 1.79 | 25.59 | 1.52 | ** | 28.79 | 1.71 | ** | 31.93 | 3.11 | 7 | 37.081 | 0.000 | |||
| Head width [mm] | 36.38 | 0.83 | 34.93 | 1.36 | * | 37.88 | 2.24 | 37.61 | 2.29 | ** | 34.00 | 1.37 | 34.69 | 1.72 | 34.12 | 1.97 | ** | 38.36 | 2.33 | 7 | 9.105 | 0.000 | |||
| Snout length [mm] | 15.50 | 1.13 | 17.52 | 2.25 | ** | 21.00 | 0.83 | 19.34 | 1.45 | ** | 15.10 | 1.05 | 14.74 | 1.69 | 13.97 | 1.67 | ** | 18.66 | 2.14 | 7 | 23.894 | 0.000 | |||
| Intraorbital distance [mm] | 13.60 | 0.65 | 14.51 | 0.79 | 15.40 | 1.04 | 15.29 | 1.12 | ** | 13.31 | 0.96 | ** | 12.08 | 0.89 | 12.34 | 0.76 | 12.79 | 1.17 | 7 | 25.088 | 0.000 | ||||
| Interorbital distance [mm] | 36.98 | 0.80 | 37.80 | 1.33 | 36.05 | 1.92 | 36.88 | 0.82 | 34.96 | 1.39 | ** | 36.82 | 1.45 | ** | 35.48 | 1.13 | ** | 38.41 | 1.77 | 7 | 7.470 | 0.000 | |||
| Lower leg length [mm] | 96.30 | 1.37 | 96.22 | 5.37 | 101.37 | 3.63 | 105.44 | 2.91 | 99.27 | 1.40 | 98.05 | 5.88 | 99.74 | 3.69 | ** | 113.30 | 3.94 | 7 | 12.874 | 0.000 | |||||
| Hind foot length [mm] | 48.14 | 2.98 | 51.96 | 2.68 | 50.23 | 1.43 | 51.76 | 3.45 | 49.00 | 2.01 | 49.83 | 2.31 | 48.90 | 2.51 | ** | 54.94 | 1.45 | 7 | 6.953 | 0.000 | |||||
| 3rd toe length [mm] | 21.16 | 0.90 | 22.24 | 1.47 | 22.37 | 1.62 | 23.75 | 1.60 | 21.70 | 0.82 | 20.61 | 2.38 | 20.80 | 1.13 | ** | 25.76 | 2.91 | 7 | 9.127 | 0.000 | |||||
| Tail length [mm] | 260.00 | 16.58 | 279.73 | 14.64 | ** | 253.00 | 13.58 | ** | 280.63 | 15.24 | 257.57 | 11.87 | 263.40 | 15.53 | 267.88 | 17.73 | 252.57 | 16.16 | 7 | 4.006 | 0.001 | ||||
| Tail circumference [mm] | 34.80 | 0.84 | 35.73 | 3.26 | 40.33 | 3.27 | * | 35.25 | 3.58 | 33.14 | 4.38 | 34.40 | 2.19 | 34.42 | 1.60 | ** | 42.43 | 6.83 | 7 | 9.046 | 0.000 | ||||
| Body mass [g] | 795.20 | 80.79 | 934.73 | 109.06 | 938.50 | 116.15 | 939.50 | 96.97 | ** | 673.57 | 120.13 | 713.07 | 93.24 | 706.31 | 61.71 | ** | 964.57 | 96.27 | 7 | 20.680 | 0.000 | ||||
Two asterisks indicate significant differences (p≤0.05) and one asterisk indicate a statistical trend (0.05≤p<0.1) between the neighbouring species/columns.