Morphological Measurements on Leptograpsus Crabs

SUMMARY:

The crabs data frame has 200 rows and 8 columns, describing 5 morphological measurements on 50 crabs each of two colour forms and both sexes, of the species Leptograpsus variegatus collected at Fremantle, W. Australia.

DATA DESCRIPTION:

This data frame contains the following columns:

ARGUMENTS:

sp
species - "B" or "O" for blue or orange
sex
as it says
index
index 1:50 within each of the four groups
FL
frontal lobe size (mm)
RW
rear width (mm)
CL
carapace length (mm)
CW
carapace width (mm)
BD
body depth (mm)

SOURCE:

Campbell, N.A. and Mahon, R.J. (1974) A multivariate study of variation in two species of rock crab of genus Leptograpsus. Australian Journal of Zoology 22, 417-425.