Table 4.
Comparisons of fifteen morphological characters between Cyrtodactylus macrotuberculatus and C. phuketensis. Data are given as mean and standard deviation, followed by range in parentheses. Morphological character abbreviations are defined in the Materials and methods. Key: a tested by Welch’s t-test, b tested by Mann-Whitney U test, * significance level at p < 0.05.
| Characters | Males | Females | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C. macrotuberculatus | C. phuketensis | t-test | p | C. macrotuberculatus | C. phuketensis | t-test | p | |
| N = 18 | N = 6 | N = 11 | N = 4 | |||||
| SVL | 105.8 ± 8.9 | 105.3 ± 10.0 | 0.112 | 0.9122 | 103.7 ± 10.1 | 104.4 ± 16.0 | -0.098 | 0.9237 |
| (88.9–117.9) | (93.2–115.3) | (84.1–115.7) | (84.8–117.6) | |||||
| TW | 9.5 ± 0.9 | 9.6 ± 1.2 | -0.061 | 0.9523 | 8.1 ± 1.4 | 8.2 ± 2.1 | -0.352 | 0.7307 |
| (8.0–11.6) | (7.9–10.9) | (5.9–10.3) | (6.2–10.5) | |||||
| FL | 17.2 ± 1.5 | 17.2 ± 2.0 | -0.098 | 0.9229 | 16.8 ± 1.6 | 16.8 ± 2.7 | 0.048 | 0.9626 |
| (14.2–18.9) | (14.4–19.0) | (13.6–18.3) | (13.3–19.3) | |||||
| TBL | 20.3 ± 1.6 | 20.6 ± 2.6 | -0.631 | 0.5348 | 19.9 ± 1.8 | 20.4 ± 3.2 | -2.166 | 0.0495* |
| (17.3–22.8) | (17.4–19.0) | (16.3–21.9) | (16.5–23.2) | |||||
| AG | 50.4 ± 4.6 | 51.5 ± 5.9 | -1.034 | 0.3125 | 50.7 ± 4.5 | 53.4 ± 7.9 | 4b | 0.0176* |
| (41.3–58.6) | (44.7–57.4) | (42.0–56.0) | (43.4–60.2) | |||||
| HL | 29.4 ± 2.2 | 29.2 ± 2.7 | 0.590 | 0.5613 | 28.5 ± 3.1 | 28.4 ± 4.4 | 0.575a | 0.5758 |
| (24.6–33.3) | (25.6–31.7) | (22.8–32.3) | (23.1–32.1) | |||||
| HW | 20.0 ± 1.8 | 19.8 ± 2.7 | 0.416 | 0.6816 | 19.0 ± 1.9 | 18.7 ± 2.6 | 0.815 | 0.4297 |
| (16.7–22.9) | (16.3–22.5) | (15.6–21.0) | (15.8–21.4) | |||||
| HD | 12.0 ± 1.3 | 12.2 ± 1.9 | -0.840 | 0.4100 | 11.3 ± 1.3 | 11.5 ± 2.0 | -1.054 | 0.3109 |
| (9.7–14.1) | (9.9–14.2) | (9.0–13.4) | (9.1–13.5) | |||||
| ED | 6.9 ± 0.6 | 6.7 ± 0.5 | 1.397 | 0.1765 | 6.7 ± 0.7 | 6.5 ± 1.1 | 1.253 | 0.2325 |
| (5.8–7.9) | (5.6–7.0) | (5.6–7.6) | (7.4–9.6) | |||||
| EE | 8.6 ± 1.0 | 8.6 ± 1.0 | 62b | 0.6261 | 8.5 ± 0.8 | 8.6 ± 1.1 | -0.106 | 0.9171 |
| (6.5–9.8) | (7.1–9.4) | (7.0–9.4) | (7.4–9.6) | |||||
| ES | 11.7 ± 1.0 | 11.7 ± 1.1 | 56b | 0.9225 | 11.5 ± 1.2 | 11.4 ± 1.8 | 0.271a | 0.7912 |
| (10.0–13.6) | (10.3–12.9) | (9.3–13.1) | (9.2–12.9) | |||||
| EN | 8.7 ± 0.7 | 8.7 ± 0.7 | 0.090 | 0.9288 | 8.6 ± 0.9 | 8.5 ± 1.3 | 0.610 | 0.5521 |
| (7.3–9.8) | (7.6–9.5) | (6.8–9.8) | (6.8–9.6) | |||||
| IO | 5.1 ± 0.6 | 4.8 ± 0.6 | 2.394 | 0.0256* | 4.8 ± 0.8 | 4.6 ± 0.9 | 0.835 | 0.4186 |
| (4.0–6.3) | (4.1–5.5) | (3.4–5.7) | (3.6–5.5) | |||||
| EL | 2.3 ± 0.3 | 2.2 ± 0.4 | 0.504 | 0.6192 | 2.4 ± 0.4 | 2.2 ± 0.5 | 1.125 | 0.281 |
| (1.7–2.8) | (1.4–2.6) | (1.6–3.0) | (1.5–2.5) | |||||
| IN | 2.2 ± 0.3 | 2.3 ± 0.3 | -0.352 | 0.7282 | 2.0 ± 0.5 | 2.3 ± 0.3 | -1.785a | 0.0129* |
| (1.7–2.7) | (1.7–2.5) | (1.3–2.9) | (1.9–2.6) | |||||