Scatter plots of an east Asian clade of skinks from the genus Scincella from the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan and Taiwan. A. PCA based on meristic data. B. PCA based on size-corrected morphometric data. C. PCA based on a combined meristic and size-corrected morphometric dataset. Circles outlined in white are centroids. D. MFA based on meristic, size-corrected morphometric, and categorical (color pattern) characters. White squares within the plots are centroids. Data for all analyses come from Koizumi et al. (2022), although only graphic D. was published.