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 3. Results of ANOVAs (for mensural characters) or GLMs (for meristic characters) and Tukey HSD post hoc tests for significantly different mean character values among taxa. Green cells are characters that differed significantly among taxon comparisons. Grey cells denote non-significant differences. Significance levels of p -values: * <0.05, ** <0.01, *** <0.001, **** <0.0001.

	L. m. microtis (N=14)	L. m. intermedia (N=6)	L. m. schwaneri (N=8)	L. arenicola (N=17)
SVL	45±7 (32–57)	45.3±3.4 (41–49)	52±13.9 (31.5–71.5)	54±8.6 (41.5–70)
HL	6.6±0.6 (5.3–7.7)	7.2±0.5 (6.5–7.8)	8.1±1.4 (5.7–9.6)	8±0.5 (7.2–9.4)
HW	4.2±0.4 (3.3–4.9)	4.6±0.4 (4.3–5.3)	5.3±1.0 (3.7–6)	5.3±0.4 (4.6–6.2)
AGD	28.4±5.4 (19.7–38.5)	27.2±2.6 (23.5–31)	31.6±10.9 (17.3–51.5)	34.6±7.2 (27.1–47.7)
Forelimb	7.3±0.7 (5.8–8.8)	8.3±0.7 (7.4–9.1)	10.3±2.0 (7.1–11.9)	10.0±0.8 (8.8–11.4)
Hindlimb	12.9±1.4 (8.8–14.7)	14.8±0.9 (13.3–15.7)	17.3±3.7 (11.3–20.9)	16.4±1.1 (14.4–18.0)
MSR	20.2±0.7 (19–22)	20.3±0.8 (20–22)	21.5±0.8 (20–22)	21.4±0.8 (20–22)
SubDig	19.8±1.4 (18–22)	20.8±1.9 (18–23)	21.1±2.0 (19–24)	19.4±2. (15–22)
Nuchals	3.2±0.6 (2–4)	3.1±0.8 (2–4)	3±0 (3–3)	2.8±0.9 (1–4)