Table 4 Mean genetic distances (below diagonal) and total character differences (above diagonal) between species groups as inferred from comparisons of 18S rDNA sequences (1931 characters).
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
1 M. brygoonis 1 2 2 2 11 10 13 10 9 25
2 M. falcatum n. sp. (B. d.) 0,001 1 1 1 10 9 12 9 8 24
3 M. multiova n. sp. (B. o.) 0,001 0001 0 2 11 10 13 10 9 25
4 M. theroni n. sp. (B. m) 0,001 0001 0,000 2 11 10 13 10 9 25
5 M. cachani 0,001 0001 0,001 0001 9 8 11 10 9 23
6 P. occipitalis 0,006 0005 0,006 0006 0,005 6 16 15 14 28
7 P. dawiekoki 0,005 0005 0,005 0005 0,004 0003 16 15 14 28
8 P. claudecombesi 0,007 0006 0,007 0007 0,006 0008 0,008 11 10 24
9 P. marmorati 0,005 0005 0,005 0005 0,005 0008 0,008 0006 1 25
10 P. testimagna 0,005 0004 0,005 0005 0,005 0007 0,007 0005 0,001 24
11 P. integerrimum 0,013 0013 0,013 0013 0,012 0015 0,015 0013 0,013 0,0126