Morphological and genetic data challenge species and subspecies in the Lerista microtis group (Squamata: Scincidae) Author Farquhar, Jules E. 0000-0002-1894-7580 School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia. jules.farquhar@monash.edu Author Prates, Ivan 0000-0001-6314-8852 Museum of Zoology & Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI USA. ivanprates@gmail.com Author Doughty, Paul Collections & Research, Western Australian Museum, Welshpool, WA 6106, Australia. Author Rabosky, Daniel L. 0000-0002-7499-8251 Museum of Zoology & Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI USA. drabosky@umich.edu Author Chapple, David G. 0000-0002-7720-6280 School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia. david.chapple@monash.edu text Zootaxa 2024 2024-04-15 5437 3 336 362 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5437.3.2 journal article 294512 10.11646/zootaxa.5437.3.2 f45fcbc4-cdea-47af-b120-d76cceab530d 1175-5326 10984941 49565730-9EA2-4231-B974-89A0321D6200

TABLE 5. PERMANOVA pairwise comparisons testing for significant differences among purported Lerista taxa (L. arenicola and all three subspecies of L. microtis) in a multivariate morpho-space described by five qualitative characters (DP, ULSB, ULSW, MLSW, NSS) and one meristic (MSR; i.e. an integer count) character.

Taxon pairs	F model	R2	p -value	p -adjusted	Sig.
arenicola vs. intermedia	21.506	0.518	0.000	0.001	*
arenicola vs. microtis	32.501	0.537	0.000	0.001	*
arenicola vs. schwaneri	20.073	0.477	0.000	0.001	*
intermedia vs. microtis	3.343	0.157	0.036	0.214	NS
intermedia vs. schwaneri	14.721	0.551	0.001	0.005	*
microtis vs. schwaneri	31.449	0.611	0.000	0.001	*