Phenotypic Variation in Freshwater Murrel, Channa punctatus (Bloch, 1793) from Northern and Eastern Regions of India Using Truss Analysis

Table 3

Pooled within-groups correlations between discriminating morphometric measurements and standardized canonical discriminant functions. Variables ordered by absolute size of correlation within function.

S. number	Morphometric measurements	Function 1	Function 2
1	5–7	.173	.022
2	3–8	.152	−.085
3	5–8	.136	.061
4	2–9	.117	−.094
5	4–9	.114	−.098
6	4–8	.094	−.013
7	8-9	.092	−.022
8	3–9	.083	.007
9	3–10	.072	.061
10	1–10	.071	.021
11	9-10	.058	.052
12	1-2	.072	.362
13	6-7	.064	−.301
14	2–11	.135	.277
15	4-5	.033	.235
16	3-4	.134	−.160
17	1–11	.067	.159
18	2-3	.065	−.148
19	5-6	.093	−.144
20	4–7	.086	.113
21	7-8	.047	.113
22	2–10	.064	−.087
23	10-11	.036	−.066

Largest absolute correlation between each variable and any discriminant function.