Fig. 1: Morphospaces of both interspecific and intraspecific tropical reef fishes data sets.
From: Continuity in morphological disparity in tropical reef fishes across evolutionary scales
Morphospaces of the a interspecific and b intraspecific data sets of tropical reef fishes. Morphological spaces were obtained by performing principal component analyses (PCAs) on fish shapes characterized by 14 common body landmarks. a The morphological space of 1061 Indo-Pacific reef fish species, gathered from a subset of 33, b the morphological space of 1111 individuals belonging to 17 reef fish species sampled in 4 geographically distant locations across the Western Indian Ocean. Polygons represent a the spread of species in families and b the spread of individuals in species. The total amount of morphological space occupied by the considered tropical reef fishes and families, i.e., the morphological richness (MRic), is shown by the light grey polygons for the interspecific level (a, MRic = 0.09) and the intraspecific level (b, MRic = 0.049). The deformation grids illustrate the shape change at the extremes of the morphospace across a families and b species.
