In the diplopod genus Centrobolus, sexual size dimorphism (SSD) displays a positive connection with body size width. The key components of interspecific variation in diplopod species are length, width, and rings. In six species, interspecific size variation was estimated with the goal of testing data sets for skewness and kurtosis. Positive skew and positive kurtosis were found in 28 of the values, while negative skew and negative kurtosis were found in 8 of the values. The width was positively skewed in six situations and negatively skewed in four. Except for C. titanophilus, all six species had a positive length skew. When there existed size assortative mating behaviour, it was considered that longer males had a higher reproductive success due to a female preference for the greater size.
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Mark Cooper
School of Animal, Plant & Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2050, South Africa
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