Table 10. Skull measurements of the studied samples of the European and steppe polecats.

Variables	M. putorius				M. eversmanii				Mann-Whitney U-test
									p-level
	M	SD	min	max	M	SD	min	max
CbL	62.8	4.46	52.4	70.0	63.1	3.19	54.4	68.2	0.67
NcL	36.0	2.33	30.1	40.1	35.6	1.48	32.8	39.3	0.07
VcL	32.6	3.34	23.8	39.4	33.5	2.72	27.1	38.2	0.05
PL	29.8	2.42	24.7	33.5	30.5	1.84	25.4	33.3	0.08
MxtL	18.7	1.25	15.2	20.9	19.9	0.94	17.4	21.3	< 0.001
Pm4L	7.0	0.47	5.7	7.9	7.8	0.38	6.7	8.6	< 0.001
BcL	16.2	1.09	13.3	18.5	21.8	1.12	19.2	24.2	< 0.001
AbL	21.4	1.45	17.4	24.1	16.9	0.92	14.5	18.7	< 0.001
ZyW	36.9	3.19	30.0	43.8	38.7	2.62	32.4	45.0	< 0.001
MW	33.9	2.92	27.5	38.7	35.3	2.31	29.6	38.6	< 0.001
PoW	15.5	1.00	13.1	17.8	13.4	0.75	11.6	15.3	< 0.001
IW	16.3	1.45	13.2	19.2	16.7	1.28	13.8	18.9	0.12
RW	15.1	1.55	11.7	18.0	16.0	1.16	13.2	17.7	< 0.001
GpW	22.4	1.63	18.4	25.2	22.9	1.29	19.3	25.2	0.01
AbW	10.4	0.88	8.1	12.8	10.5	0.69	8.9	11.8	0.19
M1W	5.7	0.46	4.6	6.6	5.5	0.33	4.6	6.2	< 0.001
CH	23.3	1.60	19.3	26.8	24.5	1.38	21.2	26.4	< 0.001
ML	38.5	3.33	31.1	44.1	39.9	2.38	33.5	43.3	< 0.001
AL	38.0	3.22	30.7	43.1	38.8	2.22	32.9	42.0	0.13
MatL	23.0	1.63	19.3	25.4	23.9	1.28	20.6	25.8	< 0.001
m1L	7.9	0.58	6.4	9.1	8.2	0.44	7.1	9.2	< 0.001
MaH	18.8	2.10	14.3	22.3	19.5	1.54	15.8	22.1	0.02
MpW	7.0	0.63	5.4	8.4	7.0	0.37	6.2	7.8	0.08

Mean (M), standard deviation (SD), and min–max values of skull measurements (in millimeters) of the studied specimens.