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Morpho-Geometric Analysis of Eight Grass Mouse Species of the Genus Lemniscomys (Rodentia: Muridae)

Morpho-Geometric Analysis of Eight Grass Mouse Species of the Genus Lemniscomys (Rodentia: Muridae)

Imed Ben Salem*, Aymen Ben Ibrahim, M’barek Chetoui and Said Nouira

Research Unit “Biodiversité et Biologie des Populations”, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, 2092 Tunis

 

*         Corresponding author: [email protected]

Figure 1

 Placement of the collected landmarks

Figure 2

Box plot showing the average of centroid size based on ventral configurations of each species. Box margin are the 25th and 75th percentiles, bars extend to 5th and 95th percentiles, the inner line represents the median.

Figure 3

Canonical Variate Analysis (CVA) of ventral configurations

Figure 4

Variation of landmarks on axis 1 of the CVA

Figure 5

UPGMA based on Procrustes distances for ventral configurations of skulls.

Pakistan Journal of Zoology

October

Pakistan J. Zool., Vol. 56, Iss. 5, pp. 2001-2500

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