DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18042910
title: Table 3 in Morphological and genetic differentiation in the anguid lizard Pseudopus apodus supports the existence of an endemic subspecies in the Levant

description: Table 3. Intercepts (in mm) of the analysis of co-variance (ANCOVA) models with subspecies and sexes main effects and SVL as a covariate (for details see Table S4).
Metric dataP. a. levantinus ssp. nov.P. a. apodusP. a. thraciusPairwise comparisonsSnout-vent length (DF = 281)1.8182.609 (p = 0.2373)5.538 (p = 0.0005)Pseudopus thracius> Pseudopus apodus = Eirenis levantinusHead length 2 (DF = 291)0.8081.28 (p = 0.4345)3.233 (p = 0.0132)Pseudopus thracius> Pseudopus apodus = Eirenis levantinusPileus length (DF = 259)3.9795.977 (p = 0.0008)8.662 (p = 5.03e-07)Eirenis levantinus> Pseudopus apodus = Pseudopus thraciusHead width 1 (DF = 329)-0.717-1.73 (p = 0.0368)-0.014 (p = 0.3752)Eirenis levantinus = Pseudopus thracius> Pseudopus apodusHead width 2 (DF = 245)7.8353.488 (p= 3.11e-16)6.700 (p = 0.367)Eirenis levantinus = Pseudopus thracius> Pseudopus apodusHead width 3 (DF = 297)8.2885.763 (p = 1.87e-09)10.054 (p = 0.0067)Pseudopus thracius> Eirenis levantinus> Pseudopus apodusFrontal shield length (DF = 266)2.5582.730 (p = 0.5528)4.196 (p = 0.0004)Pseudopus thracius> Pseudopus apodus = Eirenis levantinusFrontal shield width (DF = 266)0.3600.989 (p = 0.001)1.807 (p = 1.78e-06)Pseudopus apodus = Pseudopus thracius> Eirenis levantinusFrontal shield-snout length (DF = 203)1.5301.727 (p = 0.4982)0.902 (p = 0.1412)Eirenis levantinus = Pseudopus apodus = Pseudopus thraciusSnout width (DF = 203)3.4093.418 (p = 0.9748)4.975 (p = 0.0002)Pseudopus thracius> Pseudopus apodus = Eirenis levantinusIntermaxillar shield height (DF = 300)2.1781.590 (p = 8.23e-07)1.770 (p = 0.0312)Eirenis levantinus> Pseudopus apodus = Pseudopus thraciusIntermaxillar shield width (DF = 299)0.5690.127 (p = 0.0165)0.808 (p = 0.4199)Pseudopus thracius = Eirenis levantinus> Pseudopus apodusRudiments length (DF = 239)-1.675-1.163 (p = 0.0094)-2.042 (p = 0.2079)Pseudopus thracius = Eirenis levantinus> Pseudopus apodusMeristic dataDorsal scales longitudinal (DF = 249)98.250103.779 (p = 1.25e-09)97.492 (p = 0.5860)Pseudopus apodus> Pseudopus thracius = Eirenis levantinusVentral scales longitudinal (DF = 268)120.227121.571 (p = 0.0145)116.397 (p = 2.08e-05)Pseudopus apodus> Eirenis levantinus> Pseudopus thraciusSubcaudal scale rows (DF = 162)213.670240.662 (p = 0.0006)238.797 (p = 0.0593)Pseudopus apodus> Eirenis levantinus = Pseudopus thraciusPreanal scales (DF = 259)7.6406.060 (p = 9.59e-10)4.614 (p = 1.17e-12)Eirenis levantinus> Pseudopus apodus = Pseudopus thraciusSupralabial scales left (DF = 190)10.1469.626 (p = 0.0108)9.582 (p = 0.0595)Pseudopus thracius = Eirenis levantinus> Pseudopus apodus
description: Published as part of Jablonski, Daniel, Ribeiro-Junior, Marco Antonio, Meiri, Shai, Maza, Erez, Kukushkin, Oleg V., Chirikova, Marina, Pirosova, Angelika, Jelic, Dusan, Mikulicek, Peter & Jandzik, David, 2021, Morphological and genetic differentiation in the anguid lizard Pseudopus apodus supports the existence of an endemic subspecies in the Levant, pp. 175 in Vertebrate Zoology 71 on page 175, DOI: 10.3897/vz.71.e60800