Research Article

Genetic and Morphological Evidence Implies Existence of Two Sympatric Species in Cyathopharynx furcifer (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Lake Tanganyika

Table 2

Differences in log10 transformed morphometric characters between adult males of YA and BA ( , , after a sequential Bonferroni correction).

Morphslog10 SLMorph × log10 SL

MANCOVA = 7.79** = 77.5** = 1.46NS
ANCOVAs
 Body depth = 6.32NS = 97.2** = 0.0203NS
 Head length = 12.0** = 146** = 2.76NS
 Head width = 1.18NS = 71.9** = 0.266NS
 Snout length = 1.99NS = 134** = 1.96NS
 Eye length = 48.7** = 21.1** = 2.25NS
 Interorbital width = 0.0484NS = 51.1** = 0.454NS
 Lower jaw length = 5.77NS = 32.5** = 1.59NS
 Caudal peduncle length = 6.11NS = 50.6** = 2.24NS
 Caudal peduncle depth = 1.10NS = 110** = 1.04NS
 Dorsal fin base length = 8.21NS = 460** = 1.37NS
 Anal fin base length = 2.90NS = 90.0** = 0.0411NS
 Pelvic fin length = 12.8** = 17.4** = 4.08NS