Sexual Shape Dimorphism of the Mangrove Crab Ucides cordatus (Linnaeus, 1763) (Decapoda, Ucididae) Accessed through Geometric Morphometric

Table 2

Ucides cordatus (Linaeus, 1763): statistical results for comparison of shape variation between males and females.

Analysis	Parameters
MANOVA*	SS	df			Pillai’s trace
C	0.0252	16	7.04	<0.01	0.61
AR	0.0049	16	3.61	<0.01	0.43
MC	0.0727	16	25.35	<0.01	0.87
DFA					Prc dist
C	186.67	<0.01	<0.01	2.49	0.0304
AR	86.68	<0.01	<0.01	1.71	0.0145
MC	263.42	<0.01	<0.01	5.04	0.0455

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.