The padloper s tortuous path (Chelonia: Testudinidae): Two genera, not one Author Hofmeyr, Margaretha D. Chelonian Biodiversity and Conservation, Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X 17, Bellville 7535, South Africa; Author Branch, William R. Department of Herpetology, Port Elizabeth Museum, PO Box 13147, Humewood 6013, South Africa; & Department of Zoology, PO Box 77000, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth 6031, South Africa text African Journal of Herpetology 2018 2018-02-26 67 2 99 112 https://doi.org/10.1080/21564574.2017.1398187 journal article 310316 10.1080/21564574.2017.1398187 e28330f5-e74d-4a8e-b725-ec3dcf45facd 2153-3660 15555774

Table 1. Statistical results for straight carapace length (SCL), shell width (SW), shell height (SH), shell volume (SV) and plastron length (PL) differences between male and female Homopus and Chersobius species, followed by one-way ANOVA results for species differences among females and males, respectively. All P -values were smaller than 0.001. Subscripts provide sample sizes of the two groups for U -values, whereas they represent degrees of freedom for the t -, H - and F -statistics.

	SCL	SW	SH	SV	PL
H. areolatus	U 38,47 = 296	U 39,48 = 167	U 39,48 = 203	U 38,47 = 202	U 39,48 = 211
H. femoralis	U 19,100 = 28	U 19,106 = 8	U 19,104 = 11	U 19,97 = 12	U 19,106 = 26
C. signatus	U 23,37 = 131	U 24,37 = 50	U 23,33 = 6.5	U 22,33 = 46	U 23,33 = 25
C. boulengeri	t 68 = 4.6	t 63 = 6.3	t 64 = 7.6	U 24,40 = 82	U 20,33 = 49
C. solus	t 25 = 4.0	t 25 = 6.6	t 25 = 9.3	t 25 = 6.5	t 25 = 6.0
Females	H 4 = 152	H 4 = 150	H 4 = 143	H 4 = 144	H 4 = 144
Males	F 4,125 = 24	F 4,127 = 33	H 4 = 84	H 4 = 75	F 4,122 = 23