Growth model parameter estimates of female <i>U. rogersi</i> using two different values for the first growth band deposited (unadjusted and adjusting the time between months of births and band formation; see text for details), two metrics (disc width, DW, and total length, TL) and eight models (see

L∞ is the theoretical asymptotic size, ki is the coefficient of growth, Lo is the birth size, MSE is the mean square error of the residuals, SSE is the error sum of squares, AIC is Akaike's Information Criterion, Δi is the Akaike difference, and w is the AIC weight.