Testing Conjectures about Morphological Diversity in Cichlids of Lakes Malawi and Tanganyika From: Copeia | Date: May 9, 2005| Author: Chakrabarty, Prosanta | Copyright American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists May 9, 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

The morphological diversity of Malawi and Tanganyika cichlids has often been qualitatively described, but rarely have hypotheses based on these descriptions been tested empirically. Using landmark based geometric morphometrics, shapes are analyzed independent of other aspects of the body form (e.g., size). The estimation of shape disparity, the quantitative measure of the variance of these raw shapes, can then be applied in order to objectively test hypotheses about morphological diversity. T...

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