caa a22 4500 47576899X CHVBK 20180406123614.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1005590524932 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1005590524932 Morphological Correlates of Speciation in Bush Babies [Elektronische Daten] [Judith Masters, Nigel Bragg] Morphology is not a reliable specific indicator in nocturnal animals. Nevertheless, because species are genetically independent, appropriate analytic methods should reveal subtle and consistent morphological differences among them. Until recently, the diversity of living bush babies was underrated, and new species have been recognized on the basis of genetic, behavioral and soft tissue data. This has placed museum curators in a quandary as to how to sort their skin and skull collections according to the new specific designations. We conducted multivariate analyses of 6 morphologically similar pairs of bush baby taxa: Otolemur crassicaudatus and O. garnettii; Galagoides demidoffand G. thomasi; Galago gallarumand G. senegalensis; G. moholi and G. senegalensis; Euoticus elegantulus and E. pallidus, and Galagoides zanzibaricus and G. granti. We also compared subspecies within the taxa Otolemur crassicaudatus, O. garnettii, Galagoides demidoff, and Galago senegalensis. Five out of six species pairs were discriminated with a high level of reliability (88.5-99%) on the basis of 2-5 morphological variables. Only Euoticus elegantulus and E. pallidus did not show this pattern. All strongly supported specific discriminations share two features: (a) ear length is a highly significant factor, while the involvement of other characters is variable; (b) the greater the reliability of the discrimination, the fewer variables necessary to effect it. Euoticus elegantulus and E. pallidus behaved more like subspecies in the discrimination, while Galago senegalensis sspp. showed a pattern of variation similar to that in the specific analyses. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 2000 cryptic species nationallicence discriminant functions nationallicence identification nationallicence galagos nationallicence bush babies nationallicence Masters Judith Natal Museum, Private Bag 9070, 3200, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa aut Bragg Nigel Department of Statistics, University of Fort Hare, Private Bag X1314, 5700, Alice, South Africa aut International Journal of Primatology Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 21/5(2000-10-01), 793-813 0164-0291 21:5<793 2000 21 10764 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005590524932 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005590524932 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Masters Judith Natal Museum, Private Bag 9070, 3200, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bragg Nigel Department of Statistics, University of Fort Hare, Private Bag X1314, 5700, Alice, South Africa aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Primatology Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 21/5(2000-10-01), 793-813 0164-0291 21:5<793 2000 21 10764 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer