Descriptive skeletal anatomy of Blommersia transmarina (Amphibia: Anura: Mantellidae) from the Comoro Islands Author Santos-Santos, Javier H. Department of Biogeography and Global Change (BGC-MNCN-CSIC), Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, C / José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006, Madrid, Spain Department of Animal Biology, University of Barcelona, Avenida Diagonal 645, 08028, jssantos@usal.es Author Guinovart-Castán, Mireia Department of Biogeography and Global Change (BGC-MNCN-CSIC), Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, C / José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006, Madrid, Spain Author Vieites, David R. Department of Biogeography and Global Change (BGC-MNCN-CSIC), Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, C / José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006, Madrid, Spain vieites @ mncn. csic. es vieites@mncn.csic.es text Contributions to Zoology 2020 2019-11-30 89 1 14 73 http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18759866-20191405 journal article 10.1163/18759866-20191405 1875-9866 8343143

Table 2 Descriptive statistics and sexual dimorphism of the 123 skeletal measures taken on 10 specimens (five male / five female) of Blommersia transmarina. Measures are partitioned into anatomical regions to facilitate lecture:SVL,skull, pectoral girdle, forelimb, vertebral column, pelvic girdle, and hind limb. Significant differences in mean length between males and females (α = 0.05) are shown in bold.Abbreviations follow those in the description of the measurements (Appendix 1).

(mm)		N	range	min	max	Sexual dimorphism	partial eta-squared	Median Mean		sd	Asymmetry	Kurtosis
SVLext		10	5.88	24.50	30.38			27.25	27.34	2.0697	―.06	‒1.39
	F M	5 5				0.378	0.10		27.96 26.73	2.4016 1.7102
SVLsk		10	6.26	23.81	30.07			25.40	26.19	2.3977	.83	‒.86
	F M	5 5				0.057	0.38		27.59 24.79	2.5957 1.1287
SVLsum		10	6.39	27.00	33.39			28.38	29.55	2.6265	.44	‒1.96
	F M	5 5				0.190	0.20		30.68 28.43	2.8591 2.0457
skullL		10	2.10	9.66	11.76			10.18	10.43	.7760	.75	‒1.00
	F M	5 5				0.021	0.51		10.96 9.91	.7450.3371
skullW		10	2.69	8.90	11.59			9.68	10.06	.9223	.65	‒.98
	F M	5 5				0.048	0.40		10.62 9.50	.9380.5103
oticsW		10	1.46	6.07	7.52			6.54	6.65	.4933	.94	‒.01
	F M	5 5				0.152	0.24		6.88 6.42	.5908.2599