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TABLE III - Misclassification rates of the mandible samples, resulting from discriminant equations. The matrix shows theprobability of specimens correct
classification based on the new canonical variates.

C. suaveolens C. cf sicula C. sicula C.cf sicula C. cf sicula C. cf sicula C. sicula C. russulaC. cf russula C. leucodon
Italy Favignana Gozo Marettimo Ustica Levanzo Sicily Sardinia Pantelleria Italy

Downloaded by [183.219.240.165] at 10:10 22 March 2014 C. suaveolus (« = 11) 90.91 0 0 9.09 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Italy n 10 100 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
C. cf sicula (» = 3) I0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
n0 11.76 35.29 0 5.88 0 5.88 0 0 0
Favignana % 5.88 2 6 1 1 0 0 0
C. sicula (»=17) n1 6.25 12.5 0 6.25 0 12.5 0 0 0
I 6.25 1 2 1 2 0 0
Gozo n1 0 0 29.41 53.85 5.88 7.69 0 0 0
C. cf sicula (»= 16) I0 0 0 7 1 0 0
n0 0 0 5 0 1 0 0 7.69 0
Marettimo I0 0 0 50 0 0 0 1 0
C.cf ««//«(» =13) n0 2.26 2.26 9.81 6.25 57.36 10.94 0 0
I0 6 6 8 26 152 0 0
Ustica n0 0 0 0 3.03 1 29 1.01
C. cf sicula (n = 2) %0 0 0 0 3 13.13 65.66 4.53 1
n0 0 0 0 0 30.77 13 12 0
Levanzo I0 0 0 0 0 11.9 65 0
C. ««</*(» =265) n0 0 0 0 4 5 14.29 13.13 91.67
•I 0 0 0 8.3 0 0 13 11
Sicily n0 22 100 0 6
C. russu/a (n =99) 0 73.81
1.01 2 0 31
Sardinia 0
C. cf russula (« =42) 1 4.53 0
0
Pantelleria 0 12
C. leucodon (» = 12) 0
0 3.03
Italy
3

0

0

8.33

1

TABLE IV - Mahalanobis' distancesmatrix ofmandible OTU's. Underlined distances are not significant; (F test; P= 0.01). ND = not determined.

C. suaveolens C. cf sicula C. sicula C. cf sicula C. cf sicula C. cf sicula C. sicula C. russula C. cf russula
Sicily Sardinia Pantelleria
Italy Favignana Gozo Marettimo Ustica Levanzo

C. asicula 5.43 2.59 0.32 3.78 3.80 3.89 3.87 3.04 19.60
Favignana 10.99 3.66 2.53 2.81 7.15 10.52
4.81 3.54 2.61 5.01 12.14 20.75
C. sicula 11.57 1.26 11.22 12.43 17.38
Gozo 10.74 ND 2.86 18.39 20.90 36.46
14.70 9.15 11.43 28.37
C. cf sicula 18.77 18.08 18.46
Marettimo 23.81 29.39 30.11
41.76 37.12
C. cfsicula 29.20
Ustica

C. cfsicula

Levanzo
C. sicula

Sicily
C. russula

Sardinia
C. cf russula

Pantelleria
C. leucodon

Italy

manis, 1976; Schembri & Schembri, 1979; Poitevin et shrews. In the canonical variate space (Fig. 1), the five
al. 1986), but this attribution should be reconsidered. OTU's (Gozo, Levanzo, Favignana, Marettino and
Multivariate analysis as well as graphical comparison Ustica) are close to each other,, their D2 between-
confirm a morphological homogeneity among these distances being not significant (Table IV).