Island Evolution and Systematic Revision of Comoran Snakes: Why and When Subspecies Still Make Sense
Figure 3
CVA plot of meristic data of Comoran Lycodryas species.
Characters included are: V (number of ventral scales), MD (number of middorsal scale rows), SC (number of subcaudal scale rows), SLAB (number of supralabial scales – mean of left and right side), ILAB (number of infralabial scales – mean of left and right side), SLCE (number of supralabials in contact with the eye – mean of left and right side). Note that BMNH 1946.1.21.47, the type specimen of L. maculatus, represents an outlier of the Anjouan sample due to its uniquely low SLAB and uniquely high SC.