Pre- and Postcopulatory Traits of Salvator Male Lizards in Allopatry and Sympatry

Table 1

Descriptive statistics of body size and robustness parameters for mature males during the reproductive period of the studied populations (allopatry and sympatry) in each species.

	Salvator merianae		Salvator rufescens
Character	Allopatry	Sympatry	Allopatry	Sympatry
Snout vent length (cm)	38.86 ± 3.17	42.46 ± 2.93	41.42 ± 3.47	40.17 ± 4.30
	51	14	27	15
	8.17	6.89	8.39	10.72
Body mass (g)	1961 ± 544	2539 ± 608	2388 ± 756	2243 ± 728
	49	14	25	15
	27.73	23.94	31.66	32.45
Abdominal perimeter (cm)	24.42 ± 3.24	26.07 ± 4.10	26.06 ± 4.02	25.87 ± 3.28
	49	14	25	15
	13.29	15.74	15.41	12.66
Tail perimeter (cm)	16.06 ± 1.56	17.38 ± 1.21	17.20 ± 1.97	16.83 ± 2.09
	49	13	25	15
	9.69	6.96	11.42	12.43

Mean ± SE, sample size, and CV.