Additional file 4: of Pre-Quaternary divergence and subsequent radiation explain longitudinal patterns of genetic and morphological variation in the striped skink, Heremites vittatus

Voucher specimens and raw data included in the morphological analysis. Country codes: CYP = Cyprus, DZA = Algeria, EGY = Egypt, IRN = Iran, ISR = Israel, JOR = Jordan, LBN = Lebanon, LBY = Libya, SYR = Syria, TUN = Tunisia, TUR = Turkey. Group codes: W = Western, C = Central, E = Eastern. Morphological trait abbreviations, definitions, and data types: PF (prefrontals in contact, binary), P (parietals in contact, binary), NRN (# scales per row of nuchals, meristic), ILN (# infralabials, meristic), ISC (# infralabials in contact with subocular, meristic), SCN (# supraciliaries, meristic), ICF (which infralabial does the first chin scale reach? meristic), ICS (which infralabial does the second chin scale reach? meristic), MDN (# middorsals, from the nuchals to the middle of the hind leg base, meristic), MVN (# midventrals, from the axilla to the hind leg base, meristic), LSN (# longitudinal scale rows around midbody, meristic), SDLN (# subdigital lamellae, meristic), FL (# lamellae under fourth finger, meristic), SVL (snout-vent length, mensural), TL (tail length, mensural), HT (width of tail at tail base, mensural), VT (height of tail at tail base, mensural), ALL (distance from axilla to anterior base of hind legs, mensural), HL (head length, from tip of snout to anterior end of ear, mensural), SL (snout length, tip of snout to anterior end of eye, mensural), HB (head width, at greatest width of head, mensural), TH (thoracic height, at shoulder, mensural), LH (length of hind leg, mensural), LF (length of front leg, mensural), LT (length of tibia, mensural), LA (length of forearm, mensural), INA (inter-nare distance, mensural). Abbreviations of museum collections are the same as in Additional file 3, in addition to: SMF = Senckenberg Museum Frankfurt, Germany; MHNG = Natural History Museum of Geneva, Switzerland; MTD = Senckenberg Museum of Zoology, Dresden, Germany. (XLSX 41 kb)