Simplified summary of quantile deviations from size (SVL) means.

Deviations from the quantile means, by sex, of all samples pooled (0 on the y-axis of Figs 4 and 6) for snakes in the lower quantiles (“Low”, ~0.05–0.25), median quantiles (“Mid”, ~0.25–0.75), and higher quantiles (“High”, ~0.75–0.95). The symbol “–” indicates SVL values lower than the mean, “=“ indicates similar to the mean, “+” indicates SVL values higher than the mean. Significance of deviations can be determined from confidence intervals in Figs 4 and 6.