FIGURE 6 in Hiding in plain sight: two new species of diminutive marsupial (Dasyuridae: Planigale) from the Pilbara, Australia

FIGURE 6. PCA on the craniodental measurement data for Planigale in this study, males are closed symbols and females open symbols (note sex is not indicated for Planigale gilesi and P. tenuirostris). A) PCA before skull size has been accounted for, variation explained by PC1 axis can be interpreted as size, and B) character loadings (eigenvectors) showing the contribution of each measurement variable to PC1 and PC2. C) PCA and D) character loadings after skull size has been accounted for, less variation is explained by PC1 and with size continuing to influence PC1. PCA axes are not scaled accordingly. Note both before and after size correction there is no overlap in the distribution of samples of the two Pilbara forms.