20.500.12556/DiRROS-20038 Quantifying the intersexual and interspecific morphometric variation in two resembling sympatric lacertids Iberolacerta horvathi and Podarcis muralis Podarcis muralis and Iberolacerta horvathi are sympatric, frequently syntopic, lacertids through the entire range of I. horvathi and very similar in their general body size and shape, as well as in most ecological traits. We morphologically compared adults from the area of sympatry using biometric measurements and performed analyses to investigate their sexual size and shape dimorphism. A total of 34 males and 24 females of I. horvathi, and 25 males and 23 females of P. muralis, all adult individuals, were measured. Both species showed sexual size dimorphism with females being longer (snout-vent length, SVL) than males. After SVL correction (ANCOVA), head width, length and height and mass showed to be sexually dimorphic in both species. Males carry relatively wider, longer and higher heads and were heavier than conspecific females. I. horvathi heads were more flattened than those of P. muralis and P. muralis were heavier than I. horvathi. Both species displayed the same pattern of sexual dimorphism regarding body size, head size and shape not only in direction but also in magnitude. All results confirm that both species are very similar in studied biometric characters and, together with their ecological similarities, these suggest in absence of other factors they are likely to interact when living together. biometric characters sexual dimorphism southern Slovenia Podarcis muralis Iberolacerta horvathi Lacertidae true false true Angleški jezik Ni določen Neznano 2024-08-05 08:11:58 2024-08-05 08:11:58 2024-08-06 04:00:38 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2012 0 0 str. 29-39 no. 1 Vol. 7 2012 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2012-06-13 598.112 1827-9635 2599503 http://www.fupress.net/index.php/ah/article/view/9602/10665 1 f8a853b1-52e0-11ef-b487-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=27904 RAZ_Zagar_Anamarija_2012.pdf RAZ_Zagar_Anamarija_2012.pdf 1 E0C5A37E75222DA7AB54C8B158850220 57650b185447f6c5d081799625572b4f3b5f950f09cc8e3673e61559b98113fe 3f3d9101-52e1-11ef-b487-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=27905 https://doi.org/10.13128/Acta_Herpetol-9602 0 478ec4f8-52e1-11ef-b487-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=27906 Nacionalni inštitut za biologijo 0 0 0