Summary of the morphological characters differentiating each pair of main clades of Madascincus.

Only unambiguous diagnostic characters (eg. fixed character states for qualitative characters or non-overlapping values for meristic characters) are reported; See complete data in File S3. F: number of lamellae under 4th finger; T: number of lamellae under 4th toe; VR: number of ventral scale rows; PR: number of paravertebral scale rows; LR: number of longitudinal scale rows at mid–body; N: number of enlarged nuchal scales; PN: presence or absence of postnasal scales; FS: shape of the frontal scale; SO: position of the subocular scale; EW: aspect of the lower eyelid window; R: reproduction mode.