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Table 1 Numbers of individuals and assemblages sampled for each genus, with data and statistics on individual-based vector means for each genus (Additional file 2 : Figure S1)

From: Trophic diversity in the evolution and community assembly of loricariid catfishes

Genus

Individuals

Assemblages

Mean vector (μ)

Length of mean vector (r)

Concentration

Circular variance

Circular standard deviation

Rayleigh's Z (P)

Rao's spacing test (P)

Astroblepidae

 Astroblepus*

6

3

52°

0.74

1.27

0.26

45°

0.031

< 0.05

Loricariidae

Hypoptopomatinae

 Hypoptopoma

7

2

274°

0.22

0.00

0.78

99°

0.722

0.90 > P > 0.50

Hypostominae

Ancistrini

 Ancistrus*

44

9

192°

0.45

0.99

0.56

73°

0.000

< 0.01

 Baryancistrus†

23

4

14°

0.32

0.67

0.68

87°

0.098

< 0.01

 Chaetostoma*

44

5

179°

0.68

1.88

0.32

51°

0.000

< 0.01

 Dekeyseria

2

1

271°

1.00

20.46

0.00

4°

0.139

–

 Etsaputu*

12

2

120°

0.59

1.36

0.41

59°

0.012

< 0.01

 Hemiancistrus*

51

5

60°

0.46

1.03

0.54

72°

0.000

< 0.01

 Hopliancistrus

5

1

86°

0.31

0.02

0.69

88°

0.650

0.50 > P > 0.10

 Hypancistrus*

25

4

157°

0.88

4.62

0.12

28°

0.000

< 0.01

 Lasiancistrus*

17

4

174°

0.57

1.38

0.43

61°

0.003

< 0.05

 Leporacanthicus*

12

2

136°

0.68

1.82

0.32

50°

0.002

< 0.01

 Lithoxus

2

1

69°

0.97

1.90

0.03

13°

0.158

–

 Panaque*

41

5

343°

0.34

0.72

0.66

84°

0.008

< 0.01

 Peckoltia*

15

5

113°

0.64

1.59

0.36

55°

0.001

< 0.01

 Pseudacanthicus

1

1

110°

1.00

–

–

–

0.512

–

 Pseudancistrus*

32

4

53°

0.75

2.34

0.25

44°

0.000

< 0.01

 Pseudolithoxus*

24

3

108°

0.50

1.16

0.50

67°

0.002

0.10 > P > 0.05

 Scobinancistrus

2

1

149°

0.99

6.29

0.01

7°

0.143

–

 Spectracanthicus

4

1

86°

0.69

1.72

0.31

49°

0.148

0.50 > P > 0.10

Hypostomini

 H. cochliodon grp.†

30

7

329°

0.30

0.63

0.70

89°

0.063

< 0.05

 H. plecostomus grp.*

97

14

302°

0.19

0.39

0.81

104°

0.028

< 0.05

Pterygoplichthyini

 Pterygoplichthys

2

2

254°

0.73

0.22

0.27

45°

0.396

–

Loricariinae

Farlowellini

 Farlowella

4

3

251°

0.51

0.77

0.49

66°

0.376

0.50 > P > 0.10

Harttiini

 Harttia*

14

2

1°

0.98

18.40

0.02

12°

0.000

< 0.01

 Lamontichthys*

10

1

174°

0.97

12.64

0.03

14°

0.000

< 0.01

 Sturisoma*

16

2

187°

0.65

1.74

0.35

53°

0.001

< 0.01

Loricariini

 Limatulichthys

20

3

304°

0.25

0.51

0.75

96°

0.299

< 0.01

 Loricaria

10

5

339°

0.36

0.50

0.64

82°

0.289

0.90 > P > 0.50

 Loricariichthys

5

2

6°

0.55

1.01

0.45

63°

0.231

0.50 > P > 0.10

 Pseudoloricaria†

3

1

331°

0.93

2.01

0.07

22°

0.062

–

 Rineloricaria*

52

5

313°

0.26

0.54

0.74

94°

0.030

< 0.01

 Spatuloricaria

17

6

90°

0.21

0.42

0.80

102°

0.497

< 0.01

  1. Significance of mean vectors determined by Rayleigh's Z and uniformity of vector distribution measured by Rao's Spacing test. Taxa with significant mean vectors designated with * (P < 0.05) or † (0.10 > P > 0.05). Total number of vectors = 649 (Figure 3A).