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) (cont.).

(mm)		N	range	min	max	Sexual dimorphism	partial eta-squared	Median Mean		sd	Asymmetry	Kurtosis
foot_tph1L		10	.24	.39	.63			.49	.49	.0662	.65	1.24
	F M	5 5				0.383	0.10		.51.47	.0876.0353
foot_D1		10	1.46	3.26	4.72			3.80	3.82	.4315	.81	.86
	F M	5 5				0.560	0.04		3.91 3.74	.5827.2469
foot_ph2L1		10	.67	1.65	2.32			1.75	1.83	.2101	1.59	2.59
	F M	5 5				0.226	0.18		1.91 1.74	.2795.0603
foot_tph2L		10	.23	.49	.72			.56	.57	.0642	1.58	4.08
	F M	5 5				0.410	0.09		.59.55	.0836.0386
foot_D2		10	2.14	5.82	7.96			6.33	6.46	.6259	1.68	3.39
	F M	5 5				0.210	0.19		6.72 6.20	.8114.2383
foot_ph3L1		10	.81	2.20	3.02			2.42	2.47	.2669	1.03	.41
	F M	5 5				0.133	0.26		2.60 2.35	.3258.1121
foot_ph3L2		10	.50	1.50	2.01			1.59	1.65	.1619	1.32	1.48
	F M	5 5				0.162	0.23		1.72 1.57	.1994.0756