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 2. Summary statistics (mean ± SE, range in parentheses) of mensural and meristic data for taxa of the Lerista microtis complex investigated in this study. Values for mensural characters presented here include juvenile specimens, but note that juveniles were removed before statistical analyses of mensural characters.

	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)