FIGURE 7. Longitudinal patterns of morphological variation in the L. microtis group. The x-axis represents a west–east geographical space across coastal southern Australia, and the y-axis describes important dimensions of morpho-spatial variation: (A) PC1 scores, derived from six mensural characters; (B) nMDS1 scores, and (C) nMDS2 scores, derived from five non-mensural characters. The line of best fit and 95% confidence interval are denoted by the black line and grey shaded zone, respectively. These graphs illustrate a mostly continuous and clinal structuring of phenotypic characters in the Lerista microtis group.

Published as part of Farquhar, Jules E., Prates, Ivan, Doughty, Paul, Rabosky, Daniel L. & Chapple, David G., 2024, Morphological and genetic data challenge species and subspecies in the Lerista microtis group (Squamata: Scincidae), pp. 336-362 in Zootaxa 5437 (3) on page 349, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5437.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/10984941