Research Article
Sexual Shape Dimorphism of the Mangrove Crab Ucides cordatus (Linnaeus, 1763) (Decapoda, Ucididae) Accessed through Geometric Morphometric
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Ucides cordatus (Linaeus, 1763): statistical results for comparison of shape variation between males and females.
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MANOVA, multivariate analysis of variance; DFA, discriminant function analysis; SS, sum square; df, degrees of freedom; , Hotelling’s test; , Mahalanobis distance; Prc dist, Procrustes distance; dorsal area of carapace, C; outer face of the major cheliped, MC; and anterior region of cephalothorax, AR. *Represented only shape results. **Significance value to permutation tests under Procrustes distance among groups. |