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. 2012 Feb 14;7(2):e31314. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031314

Table 3. Summary of morphometric differences between species in the B. minima group.

B. tristis B. confidens B. micra B. desperata B. exarmata B. minima B. ramanantsoai B. dentata B. karchei B. peyrierasi B. tuberculata
N (males) 2 2 3 6 0 5 1 0 0 18 16
N (females) 8 4 4 5 2 13 2 0 1 18 3
TL (males) 31.0±0.4 (30.7–31.3) 31.7±3.5 (29.2–34.2) 23.1±0.56 (22.5–23.6) 41.6±1.4 (39.7–42.9) ––– 29.7±2.9 (26.0–33.9) 39.0 ––– ––– 37.3±1.6 (34.2–39.8) 31.8±2.1 (25.2–34.8)
TL (females) 33.5±1.9 (31.4–36.5) 33.8±1.6 (32.5–36.2) 27.6±0.9 (26.9–28.8) 45.2±1.9 (43.3–47.6) 40.0±0.2 (39.8–40.1) 31.2±2.7 (26.0–35.6) 43.2±0.4 (42.9–43.5) ––– 51.0 38.7±3.0 (32.2–43.1) 31.1±3.0 (28.9–34.6)
SVL (males) 18.1±0.1 (18.0–18.2) 19.2±1.3 (18.3–20.1) 15.6±0.3 (15.3–15.8) 25.8±0.8 (25.0–26.7) ––– 17.7±2.1 (15.0–20.6) 21.7 ––– ––– 20.9±1.0 (19.7–22.4) 17.9±1.1 (14.4–18.8)
SVL (females) 21.3±1.9 (18.0–23.8) 21.6±0.8 (20.6–22.6) 19.4±0.5 (18.7–19.9) 28.8±0.5 (27.3–30.0) 26.1±0.6 (25.7–26.5) 19.0±1.8 (15.5–21.8) 24.9±0.0 (24.9–24.9) ––– 30.7 23.4±2.2 (19.1–27.4) 19.7±1.8 (18.2–21.7)
TAL/SVL (males) 0.71 (0.71–0.72) 0.65 (0.60–0.70) 0.48 (0.47–0.49) 0.61 (0.59–0.63) ––– 0.68 (0.65–0.73) 0.8 ––– ––– 0.78 (0.57–0.92) 0.77 (0.68–0.88)
TAL/SVL (females) 0.56 (0.49–0.77) 0.56 (0.54–0.60) 0.44 (0.37–0.45) 0.58 (0.54–0.59) 0.53 (0.50–0.56) 0.63 (0.59–0.75) 0.74 (0.72–0.75) ––– 0.66 0.66 (0.53–0.73) 0.59 (0.57–0.60)
HW/SVL (males) 0.21 (0.21–0.22) 0.20 (0.20–0.20) 0.23 (0.23–0.23) 0.19 (0.18–0.21) ––– 0.17 (0.16–0.19) 0.16 ––– ––– 0.19 (0.17–0.21) 0.19 (0.18–0.21)
HW/SVL (females) 0.19 (0.18–0.20) 0.20 (0.19–0.21) 0.20 (0.20–0.22) 0.18 (0.17–0.18) 0.17 (0.17–0.17) 0.17 (0.15–0.18) 0.16 (0.15–0.16) ––– 0.17 0.19 (0.17–0.20) 0.21 (0.20–0.21)
HH/SVL (males) 0.17 (0.17–0.18) 0.17 (0.17–0.17) 0.20 (0.19–0.20) 0.17 (0.16–0.18) ––– 0.15 (0.14–0.18) 0.17 ––– ––– 0.17 (0.15–0.19) 0.16 (0.14–0.19)
HH/SVL (females) 0.16 (0.15–0.17) 0.17 (0.17–0.18) 0.19 (0.18–0.19) 0.17 (0.15–0.17) 0.16 (0.16–0.16) 0.16 (0.14–0.16) 0.17 (0.15–0.18) ––– 0.16 0.17 (0.16–0.19) 0.18 (0.17–0.20)

The table includes only rudimentary data presented for B. dentata which is morphologically similar to B. ramanantsoai and of which no specimens were examined morphologically by ourselves. Abbreviations as in Table 1. For TL and SVL, data are in mm and are given as mean ± standard deviation, with minimum–maximum in parentheses. Ratios are given as median, with minimum–maximum in parentheses. N is total number specimens examined for morphometry (original data in Tables 12, Supporting Information S1 and [5]).